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          26 days ago

          Faith and belief isn’t the same thing, no? Faith is something you have regardless of evidence.

          Anyway, the difference between them are that one is evidence-based on a scientific ground, which should be the only valid evidence, while the other isn’t.

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            24 days ago

            yes but you still have to have faith in the ability of another person to do science and not falsify evidence

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              24 days ago

              That’s why science is peer reviewed and a different matter. You can also potentially fact check it yourself. But this is digressing from the point

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                23 days ago

                but you can’t! are you personally able to verify the results of every scientific investigation ever performed? think about what’s currently happening in psychology. loads of old foundational studies have been found to be irreproducible. and yet people had faith that they were conducted honestly and appropriately

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                  23 days ago

                  Well yes, you could? That’s why science gets peer reviewed. If it’s not something that can be reproduced it won’t pass. And psychology is difficult since there’s so many factors that can change, which brings back my earlier point, facts can change. :)

                  Plate tectonics wasn’t discovered until recently so before the 60’s, it was a fact that continents didn’t move. Then it was discovered that they do actually move, and now it’s a fact that they do.

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                    19 days ago

                    not within your lifetime though. you just have to have faith in the peer review process. also peer reviewing typically does not involve actually reproducing the results