Religion
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)My POINT, was that a person like you aware of science-y stuff and all, can have 'faith' that X will happen (Water freezes at 0c) and discover conditions where water achieves 0c, but doesn't actually freeze until around -45c, and other bizarre behaviors like spontaneous freezing when you strike the container it is in, etc.
You HAVE to test it. Testing these things finds the truth. Truth CAN be found. And knowing the caveats and exceptions doesn't obviate the assumption (faith) that water freezes at 0c, because most water on the planet is not, in fact, pure.
One can go on believing, or having faith, that water freezes at 0c with that exception knowledge in their back pocket. Moses could go on with Faith(TM) in his god, even though he was allegedly subject to direct exposure to supernatural powers that tend to validate the existence of an alleged supernatural being.
I don't think you followed the point of this conversation at all.