Originally posted by @eladar
You keep telling yourself the two are similar.
One can be tested over and over again by combing elements. The other os based on an assumption of what actually happened in the past.
But but but those are the same thing right?
But thanks for explaining the basis of your faith.
That attitude is what pissses of scientists, the pathetic attempt to force science in the same box as religion so everthing a scientist does is done on faith. You can't see an electron so you only have faith they exist. Well you grab hold of a 20,000 volt power line and you sure as HELL will FEEL those faithful electrons.
Science in general doesn't jump to some conclusion by the lab result of one dude.
He writes a paper, gets peer reviewed, they say, sounds reasonable, publish.
Then other scientists read it and go, bullshyte, that's not what is going on here, so scientist # 1 is in a fight to prove his point.
Other people try to dup his results, maybe some succeed, then they find the rest of the crowd was overestimating the effect of some parameter or other and getting bogus answers which was what the whole science world THOUGHT was going on.
Then other folks design better experiments, clear up the problems with the old, and lo and behold, scientist #1 was right, this new paradym is what is really going on, overturning a hundred years of incorrect thinkiing.
Depending on how widespread the change makes, he gets a Nobel prize in Chemistry or whatever.
THAT is how science works in reality. NOTHING taken on faith. The only thing taken on faith is you drop a hundred Kg weight on your toe, you can feel pretty dam confident you are going to end up with a broken toe. You can take that to the bank. But even that is based on evidence, but evidence proven a million times over, no amount of new science is going to change that. It is now in the realm of common knowledge but you would debase it to 'well you just demonstrated faith'. We demonstrated CONFIDENCE not faith.
BIG frigging difference.