Science and Faith?

Question

What is the basic contradiction between faith and science?

Answer 1

Great answer, Eri.  Never heard it put more succinctly.  I hope and trust your work continues to go well.

Answer 2

Faith is believing in something without evidence.  Science is accepting something because of the evidence.  When the evidence says one thing and your belief says the other, you run into a problem.

Answer 3

Science is based on experimentation and evidence.  You come up with a theory, and try to prove it though experimentation.  You may disprove your theory, so need to come up with a new idea.  Over time, a theory gathers more evidence, until it is supported by the community as a whole.  Scientists need to be open to new ideas and new evidence, even if that destroys their theories.

Faith is not based on evidence, it is based on belief. For example: "I believe in my god, but I cannot experimentally prove or disprove his existence".  For many believers, no amount evidence can sway them from this faith, they will refuse the accept any new theory.

Answer 4

ah... the two subjects that have been at war for centuries.

personally i beleive god is fake. (the guy has superpowers, and as long as people tell those don't exist, i think god is fake.)

Im a science buff, actually im a science-fiction buff.