Is there a difference between religious faith and scientific belief?
Faith is a belief without proof. Religious faith is the faith in a greater entity, be it the judeo-christian-islamic God, or the Hindu Pantheon, or the Indian Spirits. It is the belief in the existence of these without PROOF of the existence of these things. Scientific belief seems to be founded on proof. Yet this proof is all a product of human perception and reason. There is no PROOF that human perception and reason are not fundamentally flawed. There is actually no PROOF that just because something is observable and repeatable that it is universal truth or fact. We can never know whether or not our perception and reason are in fact flawed and wrong. Without PROOF that human perception and reason are whole, intact, and correct isn’t any system of belief around these things, including science, nothing more than faith? Tiger Striped Dog MD We do what we can. Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews and Muslims all use the periodical table of the elements. They all prove two triangles are co
