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Originally Posted by pbandjay
Aren't most faiths and religions based on miracles? And a miracle can be considered something that can't be scientifically explained. Bam!
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Miracles are evidence for a certain belief.
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I do believe that there are many assumptions in scientific study that in which we must have faith as well.
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This is quite true, however, many of these assumptions we have some reason for assuming them, that is, there is some evidence and understanding of their origin, etc... .
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There are many basic assumptions in science as well, and there are many resources that write about them. Most of them are something along the lines of:
The Universe is real (i.e. true/physical universe).
It is orderly.
There are laws that govern the universe and they are understandable/discoverable.
They don't change with spacetime.
All of our ideas can be changed according to what information we have and discover in time.
We have our human senses and they are reliable.
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These can be explained using various theories, thus, they are not an assumption that we assume with little reason for. Some have more than others though. Unfortunately for you though, you chose some rather awful examples (i.e. the one on human senses).
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Don't we have to believe in science as well?
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We have to have some amount of faith in science, yes, however, we may be able to test and/or explain something about that faith. That is, if we do a test, we have to have faith that it is going to be true. We can test for that, such as, re-do the test over and over on different or the same person and eventually, it will be so improbable, we can conclude it is impossible for that test to have been wrong (i.e. compare the other results to that one).
So while there is faith, that faith can be explained and tested easily usually but there is little blind faith.