Night’s Geology - Edit3

[dukealien]

Faith in something that is proven using the scientific method cannot be compared to faith as it is used in religion. This seems a faulty (pun intended) syllogism, but then again I probably need to go to bed.  

dale

And yet I have compared them.  Faith in religion (that what PBUH said to Abu Bakr is what PBUH was indeed ordered to Recite, or that what the Muse sang to Homer was truly how things stood on Olympus) is certainly not identical with faith in science (that what has been replicably observed today will continue to be replicably observable tomorrow), but neither kind of proposition is actually testable.  A leap of faith is demanded and consistent, apparently confirming reports by others do give confidence.  Science works; so did burnt offerings, though a bit less reliably.