Scared of the Future [I Believe That the True Religion Is Iglesia Ni Cristo]

s for having both faith and science: that's fine as long as faith is not allowed to get in the way. But in that case what does the faith mean? Established churches of all sorts have held views that they claimed were justified by faith and a holy book but which have been overturned by events.

The problem with faith is that it inspires people to try to convince others in the absence of, and sometimes in contradiction to, evidence. On the other hand science does not need to convince anyone. Anyone who wants to can repeat the experiments, or more likely have some one more skilled repeat them and examine the outcome themselves.

@ninalanyon agreed but who does have actual access to perform such complicated scientific experiments? even scientists themselves,many times cannot afford the equipment or the access to certain labs. So it is a process that requires from us utter trust. Absolute trust to scientists. I am not a religious, rather a sceptic. I see that nowadays science, sometimes, requires from us just the same amount of faith as religion does .. 🤔

@elafina [quote]science, sometimes, requires from us just the same amount of faith as religion[/quote]
I disagree.

I have to trust someone to tell the truth but that is not the same as faith. I can withdraw my trust if the one I trusted turns out to be fallible or malicious. But a defining feature of faith, at least in the Christian tradition, seems to be that the thing one has faith in is [i]defined [/i]as infallible.

I do not have faith in Maxwell's equations, General Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics but I trust those theories because I can see what we can achieve when we apply them. They accurately predict the future, they make my mobile work, they make the computer on which I am typing this work. If a new experiment shows that any of those theories fail to describe reality then my trust in them will be weakened in the areas where they fail and eventually I will put my trust in a new theory that includes those as a special case or simplification just as General Relativity is approximated by Newtonian Mechanics.

I don't need to perform all the experiments myself, although I have done some, because I can see an unbroken chain of theory and practice from Pythagoras and earlier to modern physics that has built the modern world. If necessary I can pay someone to verify a theory; in some cases a lot of money will be required but the fact that I cannot verify a theory all by myself does not change trust into faith.