Victor Stenger; Showing God Does Not Exist

[cbayer]

16. You saying it doesn't make it so.

You don't like the use of the word when applied to science. You want to keep it exclusively in the realm of religion.

That's ok.

Faith is not about miracles. It's about trust and belief.

I believe that the guy who I hired to calibrate my equipment was truthful about his credentials and gave me an accurate report on the maintenance he just did. I don't have the expertise to do it myself, but I have faith that the numbers the equipment are giving me are accurate and I can use them. You can call it whatever you want, but unless you are working in utter isolation and doing absolutely everything yourself, you have to have some faith in others.

You can use whatever words you want. It's just semantics at this point, and sounding a bit dogmatic.

Please stop telling me that I don't know how science works. You might find it embarrassing if you knew anything about me at all.