Faith and Doubt in Science and Religion
One of the contexts in which religion and science come into conflict is with regard to faith and doubt. Generally speaking, we associate faith with religion, which is opposed to doubt, and doubt with science, which is opposed to faith. Some critics of science have argued that science is also based o...
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| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2004
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intelligibility faith
B skeptic's doubt B sciencis B Religious Faith B quotidian doubt B Agnosticism B verificatory doubt B quotidian faith B Gnosis |
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| Summary: | One of the contexts in which religion and science come into conflict is with regard to faith and doubt. Generally speaking, we associate faith with religion, which is opposed to doubt, and doubt with science, which is opposed to faith. Some critics of science have argued that science is also based on faith; others have shown that there is doubt in the religious context also. In this essay I clarify these positions by defining different types of faith and different types of doubt. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2004.00630.x |