On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:31:05 +0100, Thomas Borchert
wrote:

Robert,

Experimentation is based on faith.


Huh?

Most of the diatribe against faith posted around here is directed
against what those in my church call "blind faith", or faith without
submitting the subject matter to a test. But it isn't at all what I've
meant by "faith" since about the age of 15.

In scientific method, you advance your hypothesis and propose a test.
Publish it. Anyone who acts to submit your hypothesis to that test is
acting on faith in that hypothesis.

If it's proven out, that faith becomes knowledge. If not, toss the
hypothesis on the scrap heap and wait for or formulate refinements.

Rob

--
[You] don't make your kids P.C.-proof by keeping them
ignorant, you do it by helping them learn how to
educate themselves.

-- Orson Scott Card