Differences between Religious and Scientific Faith

[Times Roman]

Science is kinda like faith in a sense, it is what we understand to be factual, but is it really? They thought the earth was flat at one time, as a fact, but it wasn't, so they really had only faith that what they believed was fact until proven to be different than what they thought. The science they are dealing with now is so advanced, how can anyone be absolutely sure it is correct? Until either "God" or the Aliens come down and tell us what all this really means, we are just having faith in what we have learned up to this point in humanity.

not true. back then, without the scientific principle, they really didn't understand the definition of what a fact is. A fact is not an interpretation, it is what it is. It is a truth. We thought the world to be flat. But believing it to be flat doesn't make it a fact, nor to be true.

[lovbyts]

not true. back then, without the scientific principle, they really didn't understand the definition of what a fact is. A fact is not an interpretation, it is what it is. It is a truth. We thought the world to be flat. But believing it to be flat doesn't make it a fact, nor to be true.

Does it? Or does it just mean that we dont have or understand all the facts such as not being able to travel faster than light? They believed the world was flat because of the facts that some ships had sailed off the end of the earth, or so they thought. It was as close to fact as they could get without sacrificing their own life probably.

I think/believe our science is still in it's infancy and there are a lot of things we consider facts or proven by science, mathematics or??? In another 100 or 200 years they will probably look back on our science and think it was as laughable as when we thought the world was flat or that we were the center of the universe.

So how does that differ from today's science? They believe it to be fact, but what makes it fact? The belief that the pieces of the puzzle they put together add up so it must be fact? If the big bang is being questioned, why? New information, new ways of thinking, new science. It is all just guessing on a higher level, no different than when they thought the world was flat. With the information and understanding of the times, that is the conclusion they came to. Nothing can ultimately be proven, as we evolve and become smarter,, old theories come into question.

Well I guess I should have read down further before I wrote what I did since it was pretty much a repeat. lol