Alex WellersteinVerified account

Can we add, "Belief is actually the totally correct representation of their relationship with scientific expertise"? Because for most people, it's 100% the right word (they have faith in the edifice of the scientific community and what they have been told they say is correct).

Faith in science is evidence based and recognizes that scientific facts can be undone, unlike other faiths. Even the scientific method can evolve and change a bit, though not much.

It's faith that the apparatus is evidence-based and self-correcting. Unless you're an expert in a given field, you can't actually confirm that it is this way. (And in fact, much error results when non-experts try to interpret or evaluate evidence.)

Over the long haul though it builds and builds on its own failures. So much is now explained by science with a ton of evidence. Do I need to be an expert to understand that the earth is round? Nope because there’s enough science.