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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup
The scienctific method is not simply a different kind of faith. It has a fundamentally different structure.
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I disagree. I'm not saying it's the same kind of faith as religious faith, but it still takes a certain level of faith to accept unproveable axioms (I'm talking a=a; if a=b and b=c then a=c, etc.) as, or close enough to, true. Yes, it is clearly different in that those axioms are open to change should evidence otherwise come forward, but the fact remains that to get off the ground, to make any mathematical or scientific progress, one must
believe that certain things are true without proof. Experimental evidence, yes, but not proof. I, for one, do believe them to be true.