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Re: Scientists to unveil proof of ‘God particle’
b...b....but the theory of gravity is only a theory. :mrgreen:
I have faith in scientific method, but that faith is not the same type of faith that theists speak of or mean. To confuse the word faith when applied to science is fallacious, since obviously the majority is not talking about science as if it were a belief system comparable to religions. No one has a faith in dark matter (perhaps some new age folk do?) instead dark matter and dark energy are theories that are agreeably unproven. The fact that you are saying that scientists have some kind of faith in dark matter shows that you have really no understanding of scientific method.
The great advantage of the scientific method is that it is unprejudiced: one does not have to believe a given researcher, one can redo the experiment and determine whether his/her results are true or false. The conclusions will hold irrespective of the state of mind, or the religious persuasion, or the state of consciousness of the investigator and/or the subject of the investigation. Faith, defined as belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence, does not determine whether a scientific theory is adopted or discarded.
b...b....but the theory of gravity is only a theory. :mrgreen: