How do we feel about people saying they "believe" in science?
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I think any appeal to "Science" in conflates these — it is not one single thing (not a single method, not a single community, not a single philosophy, not a single collection of statements, etc.). Historians of science tend to see it as a very fluid category of human activity.
(Which is just to say, the issue I think one ought to take is not with the term "belief" — which we use for all sorts of non-religious, empirical matters — but with the assumption that "science" means something singular and persistent.)
