ICStats said:
Oh yes, but what you have complete trust or confidence in makes a lot of difference. - If you have faith the Earth is flat, it's just a guess. You haven't been far enough, you don't have the tools to tell that it's flat or not, that's why you guessed wrong. There are a lot of things people had pure faith in which turned out wrong, or remain unproven. In fact at the time when our major religions were written, people didn't know a whole lot compared to what they do now. - If you have faith that you can fly and pilot a giant robot with frikin' lazers on Mars then you are a trust and confidence Ninja who has done work until you could gain that confidence. - Science is a process, and yes you can have faith in a process. Like, I have faith that if you lay bricks one on top of another you will build something. Science isn't waiting to find something, it's just expanding our understanding. It's easy to have faith in that, given how far we've come. What's the rush? Is someone hurrying you to choose between waiting for understanding, and choosing the Flying Spaghetty Monster by Friday? If some theory doesn't make sense to you, then you don't have to choose it. |
That's something I respect and understand, science refine faith, and when science say its word it is ultimate answer, 1+1=2, no question about it.
However, assuming science can answer everything in life because science is expanding our understanding is pure faith in science, there are aspects in life that are as old as life itself and have been subject of reseach forever, yet we are still not even close to begin to understand it, in fact, we haven't even taken a small step. Understanding consciousness/soul for example, what happens after death, where does that consciousness go? or maybe it becomes nothing, do nothingness exist / existed?
My main point is that there are different philosophies, and faith... A lot of faith, which is an essential part of human mind. My problem is that whenever a debate happens it turns into circus. A lot of arrogance and statement lager than life, blindness to any kind of knowledge. Let's not pretend something that we are not, no one is all knowing like some people act.. and usually young people too.
Only my take on the subject.
