Originally Posted by Chuck

Science is not faith based. We evolved in a universe in which patterns persist and the genes that survived and reproduced were the ones that took advantage of this. Everyone does science at some level, even those who declare it to be evil. When you reach for an apple on a table you expect it to be there because that's the way things turned out when you experimented early in life. That's using science. You can believe that a supernatural being causes the apple to be there when your hand arrives but that doesn't alter the fact the scientific research was done. We do science before we even know the meaning of the word and we can hardly have faith in something before we even know about it.