{"id":4815,"date":"2007-11-25T23:45:24","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T22:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=4815"},"modified":"2007-11-26T09:09:05","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T08:09:05","slug":"taking-science-on-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=4815","title":{"rendered":"Taking Science on Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/nytlog.jpg'  align=\"left\" alt='' \/><strong>By PAUL DAVIES<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished: November 24, 2007<\/p>\n<p>Tempe, Ariz.<\/p>\n<p>SCIENCE, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term \u201cdoubting Thomas\u201d well illustrates the difference. In science, a healthy skepticism is a professional necessity, whereas in religion, having belief without evidence is regarded as a virtue&#8230;.But until science comes up with a testable theory of the laws of the universe, its claim to be free of faith is manifestly bogus. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/24\/opinion\/24davies.html?_r=1&#038;em&#038;ex=1196053200&#038;en=%205a4%20ae1261538f06d&#038;ei=5087%0A&#038;oref=slogin\">Read the rest here&#8230;<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/27gz9h\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/dogle.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\" \/><strong>By PAUL DAVIES NYT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> SCIENCE, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term \u201cdoubting Thomas\u201d well illustrates the difference&#8230;But until science comes up with a testable theory of the laws of the universe, its claim to be free of faith is manifestly bogus.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}