Keeping the Faith

THE CONTEXT ELUDES ME, but the dynamics were all too familiar. A person of religious faith insisting that science, too is based on faith, and that, therefore, scienceis in and of itself a sort of religion. I haveneverunderstaood why so many religious people are intent to point this out, partly because it simply isn't true. Science is self correcting, and has no faith that it will ever achieve a complete understading of nature, nor even anything approaching a comprehensive comprehension of it. It has hope, but not faith. So onward stumbles and lurches science, always changing, incessantly correcting itself, proposing theories as possible explanations for natural phenomena, testing them, discarding those which fail to pass the test of reason according to the scientific method, which is extremely often, and continuing on, searching,,,searching..until at long last it produces a hard earned theory which passes the test, and wonder of wonders, human knowledge of the universe advances. Faith lays no part in science. Hope plays an enormous part. Faith is beliefwithout evidence. Science eschews faith. Reigios people almost universally believe taht relifioug faith yields more truth than science. then why their insistance that sciience is amatter of faith Do they mistrust their own reliance on faith, and strive to demonstrate that science is constrained by the same reliance? Do they wish to elevate their religious beliefs to a position of parity with science? Do they wish to bring the obvious effectiveness of science in yielding knowledge about nature to the level of their religion, which they realize yields little or none? Why the need to establish equailty between the two, if they are devoted to religion, to their one true religion which for them is the source of all knowledge and all widsom, and consider science of secondary benefit? Are we to assume that the religious, concerned tat science is outpacing religion in yielding understeanding, needs to be defended against its more intelletually powerful antithesis? What you never hear them proclaim is that faith in God gives us more knowledge about the universe than religious faith. There is simply much too much easily observable evidence to the contrary.