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Philologos
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25 Jul 2011, 3:15 pm

ruveyn wrote:
YippySkippy wrote:
If I believe something is true because someone told me so, is my opinion based on evidence or faith?
Is "Einstein said so" my evidence, or is it an example of faith in Einstein?


Einstein's theories have earned their place by virtue of empirical verification and lack of empirical falsification.

ruveyn


As all too often, irrelevant to the question.



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13 Dec 2016, 11:28 am

All that we know involves some measure of faith whether we choose to believe it or not. Any Scientific hypothesis has an element of faith, we are to believe a certain thing to be true based on what we know. The problem is what of the unknown known and even the unknown unknown? There are variables influencing the end result that as of yet we cannot begin to understand (even the thought of that thought is faith) perhaps our hypothesis's are correct but likely they are correct due to conditions not understood which appear to be influenced by conditions that are understood thus resulting in a hypothesis based on faith with a realization that it is based on faith.

At least that is what I believe. :heart: