November 27, 2007

Faith-Based Science

Just where do the laws of gravity and physics come from?

Paul Davies on Taking Science on Faith

science has its own faith-based belief system. All science proceeds on the assumption that nature is ordered in a rational and intelligible way. You couldn’t be a scientist if you thought the universe was a meaningless jumble of odds and ends haphazardly juxtaposed. When physicists probe to a deeper level of subatomic structure, or astronomers extend the reach of their instruments, they expect to encounter additional elegant mathematical order. And so far this faith has been justified.

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until science comes up with a testable theory of the laws of the universe, its claim to be free of faith is manifestly bogus.

Posted by Jill Fallon at November 27, 2007 8:58 PM | Permalink
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