science begins with observation. The scientific method works something like this:
1. Collect data by observation and/or experimentation.
2. Form a hypothesis about that.
3. Test it.
4. Predict.
5. See if your prediction pans out
Faith is a firm, stoic, and sacred conviction which is both adopted and maintained independent of physical evidence or logical proof. It is also an assumption of absolute accuracy and inerrent authority which must never be questioned. Science, on the other hand, is a matter of skeptical inquiry, in which nothing is sacred, and where even authority opinion is suspect. Its an objective method of measurably or verifiably improving our understanding of physical nature in practical application, or mathematics, or through experimentation and observation, and proposing falsifiable hypotheses explaining the facts in a theoretical framework to be subjected to a perpetual battery of critical analysis in peer review. Science parallels the rationalist perspective in that 'belief' should be tentative, conditional, and restricted only to that which is directly- supportable by logic or evidence; that, while many things may be considered possible, nothing should be positively believed unless positively indicated via the scientific method, and all assumptions must be questioned. In short, scientific methodology is the antithesis of faith, opposites in every respect.
For instance the kind of openess and willingness to accept the order that confirms no creator God? I din't think so.
And yet if you were able to provide the slightest bit of empirical evidence that there was or there wasn't, science is open and ready to investigate.
You've veered so far off your original statements it's unbelievable!
Religion is not here to tell you how to build stuff or propose elaborate elementary particle theories. Its goal is to guide you on how to live. What science does that? Psychology? Very doubtful, plus many hard core scientists don't even recognize that as a true science. Political sience, economics? Don't make me laugh.
Does music "work?" How about love, sacrifice, humility, faithfulness, loyalty? Can you "prove" that you love your wife or kids? I'm not talking about actions, just walk over to the board, grab a marker and "prove" it. Even better, can you "prove" that you dream? Does any of them (eg, music, love, dreams) play a significant role in your life, more significant than math and science? C'mon, choose a side... and taking both is allowed, in fact, imo, it's the best choice.
The media and (pseudo)intellectual elites distort the meaning of certain words in order to get some sort of advantage in terms of, what else, scarce resouces. "Don't give money to your church, religion doesn't "work." Instead, consider a gift to our university, the Physics Dept perhaps - science "works."" Words like faith and evolution are frequent visctims of this, and frameworks like logic and reason, as if religious folks don't use them, play the opposite overinflated role.
Does music "work?" How about love, sacrifice, humility, faithfulness, loyalty? Can you "prove" that you love your wife or kids? I'm not talking about actions, just walk over to the board, grab a marker and "prove" it. Even better, can you "prove" that you dream? Does any of them (eg, music, love, dreams) play a significant role in your life, more significant than math and science? C'mon, choose a side... and taking both is allowed, in fact, imo, it's the best choice.
The media and (pseudo)intellectual elites distort the meaning of certain words in order to get some sort of advantage in terms of, what else, scarce resouces. "Don't give money to your church, religion doesn't "work." Instead, consider a gift to our university, the Physics Dept perhaps - science "works."" Words like faith and evolution are frequent visctims of this, and frameworks like logic and reason, as if religious folks don't use them, play the opposite overinflated role.
Well that's the thing isn't it. Religion tells everything but explains nothing. Just kicks the can down the road to the inevitable unexplainable unknowable pseudo-truth put there to dodge it all..
The evidence isn't being defined by science , it's observed whether or not verified evidence fits with the facts.
It's perfectly clear how religion can only at best curve fit its own opinion to the facts, like any made up story will , or ignore them altogether as it frequently does.