Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/"Dawkins and Pinker are jerks."/reply (18)

Most are. Not all. Every single person believes things on faith. Until you have learned science, you can only trust (faith) that science is correct. You have faith that the legal system works or does not work; you have faith that your spouse loves you, etc.

this idea that we have "proof" is mostly a feel good BS position. SOME PEOPLE have proof, but those people are few and far between. most of us just trust that the proof that science has, is real. There are (made up number) 100 people in the world who understand the math behind the big bang - the rest of us just trust them. That is, no matter how much you couch it in "but it's science, it's different", still faith.

That said, it's a faith I trust, cause they do things that most religions cannot do, which is make accurate predictions about the world.

"Anti religion" is a tenant that RELIGION (and as you say, faith) IS BAD. there is no support for this, and infact, significant support that religion, while at times horrific, is also good for people. When you look at the whole picture, it is no better or worse than any other human invention.