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Originally posted by Nathans_Dad
Does it not take faith to believe that science will eventually be able to explain that which we cannot understand? I think it does.
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I think you are mis-using the word, Rick, the subtlies of language. Faith is the ability to believe something for which there is NO material support. There is much material support for the proposition you put.
If changed the word "faith" to "confidence", your statement would be more conetxtual. And the difference is -if you then asked "why do you this have confidence?"- we could examine the ways science has improved out lot over, say the last 1000 years. We could look at to steel, alloys, to electrcity, to chemistry etc, etc etc and we could surmise that this sceintifc advancde will continiue.
If I asked you tho, "why do you this have confidence" (say, of the power or prayer) we could quickly dispose of the material evidence, as there is none, and get down to "because I believe so" . That is faith.
BTW- Akbar is an Arabic word for "Great". Ablett was a footballer, widely known as "God". So yes my sig is an irrwevrent swipe at religion- but not yours.