Reply To: Why do you believe in Science?

OneOfMany,

You wrote: “As for making assumptions in the development of scientific principles: I think there is a difference between making an assumption and acknowledging that it is not testable, and labeling said assumption as “belief.”

The whole point of my opening post is that the entirety of science is based on a major assumption for which there is no logical basis and which is inherently untestable. All of science is based on just such a “belief.”

Additionally, there is odd semantic issue out there that you are echoing, that “belief” means an assumption that is not testable or not based on evidence. But that isn’t how most people use the word. Most people use the word to mean assumptions and positions I have reason to hold of but for which I cannot be absolutely sure. I don’t know, but I believe.

There are very few things indeed that people believe without evidence. And most things that people believe are testable, at least theoretically.