{"id":245,"date":"2006-05-12T09:44:24","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T09:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/12\/credo\/"},"modified":"2006-05-12T09:44:24","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T09:44:24","slug":"credo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/12\/credo\/","title":{"rendered":"Credo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very nice post from Rob Knop, exploring the <a href=\"http:\/\/brahms.phy.vanderbilt.edu\/~rknop\/blog\/?p=55\">the role of faith in science<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You may then ask, am I not then taking many of the results of science as faith, since I didn&#8217;t check all of the experimental results and subsequent analysis myself? Answer: yes and no. It is a lowercase-f &#8220;faith&#8221;, in that I trust the scientists who did the work to have known what they were doing and to have honestly and reasonably done the work. I have also trusted the others in their sub-field to keep them honest, by reproducing the experiments independently and critically reading their work. This is very, very different from the big-F &#8220;Faith&#8221; on which religion is based.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s not a great deal to say, other than &#8220;Amen, brother.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very nice post from Rob Knop, exploring the the role of faith in science: You may then ask, am I not then taking many of the results of science as faith, since I didn&#8217;t check all of the experimental results and subsequent analysis myself? Answer: yes and no. It is a lowercase-f &#8220;faith&#8221;, in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/12\/credo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Credo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-war_on_science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}