The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Despite the best efforts of apologists like William Lane Craig, the 'evidence' for Christianity's truth is, in truth, not the kind that science will or should ever admit. We believers mean something different by the word: something that puts faith permanently in the category of irreproducible results.
The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.
For more than 200 years, materialists have promised that science will eventually explain everything in terms of physics and chemistry. Believers are sustained by the faith that scientific discoveries will justify their beliefs.
I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.
Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
The more science learns, the more I'm convinced that God is real.
Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.
Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them.
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.