The other day I observed science instruction in action and realized that for all the bashing that belief in God takes from people who believe in science that it takes just as much faith to believe in science sometimes as it does in God.
You believe what you’re taught to believe (raise up a child in the way that he should go…) but it all takes trust in something you cannot see, touch, or prove more times than either would like to admit.
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The best scientists are skeptics of science too, looking for ways to poke holes in conventional wisdom or the newest results.
But you’re right — that’s now how its taught in school — and its why I’ve never really like the “gee whiz isn’t this incredible!” approach to science. I’ve always been more interested in the chain of reasoning that takes you from what you can actually observe to at-first-implausible-sounding explanations.