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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
That's just it. Much of science is belief. Sure, there are lots of things that are scientifically proven. But even certain empirical data relies on the opinion of the observer as much as it does hard fact. . . All that aside, my main point is: some may have you believe that science is purely a game of facts, but if you stripped away the conjecture, theory, wishful thinking, and yes, pure faith, you'd be left with very little.
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Watch it, Nood; in your first four sentences you're in the very pitfall I warned against.
Now your last sentence is better thought, but what all that is for is to find new lines of inquiry, when you give it a good look. From conjecture and/or wishful thinking comes the quest to truly know, by in large part finding facts and proof thereof.
As others have put it, really a godly endeavor.
We have as great a hunger for knowledge as for religiosity -- just look at how much intellectual effort has been spent at each.