“I believe in new ideas, in progress. It’s faith. I’ve recently been thinking about faith. If you’re a religious person, which I’m not, you believe God created the universe. That’s why it works, and you’re trying to understand God’s works. There are many…
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What is "not rational" about having faith in cause and effect, once one has sufficient experience to understand the principles involved? What could be more rational?
ReplyDeleteBelief is irrelevant. Faith in the scientific method is founded on experience of the results obtained by applying it. Faith, properly understood and judiciously employed in favor of hypotheses borne out by observation, is antithetical to overreaching belief.
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