Here we have an article that shows science does have faith. Interesting is that is shows the same reasoning method that believers have in God. Believers are often put down for their belief without empirical evidence. Now we see scientists inductively reasoning the Higgs boson.
There are parallels between the search for the ‘God particle’ and the search
for God Himself, writes Alister McGrath.
....And maybe it’s not such a bad nickname after all. Lederman invented
the name the "God particle” because it was “so central to the state
of physics today, so crucial to our understanding of the structure of
matter, yet so elusive.” Nobody had seen it back in 1994. And
they’re still not sure whether they’ve really seen it today. Yet this
isn’t seen as a massive problem. The idea seemed to make so much
sense of things that the existence of the “God particle” has come to
be taken for granted. It has become, I would say, a “particle of faith”.
The observations themselves didn’t prove the existence of the Higgs
boson. Rather, the idea of the Higgs boson explained observations so
well that those in the know came to believe it really existed. One
day, technology might be good enough to allow it to be actually
observed. But we don’t need to wait until then before we start
believing in it.
....There’s an obvious and important parallel with the way religious
believers think about God. While some demand proof that God exists,
most see this as unrealistic. Believers argue that the existence of
God gives the best framework for making sense of the world. God is
like a lens, which brings things into clearer focus. As the Harvard
psychologist William James pointed out years ago, religious faith is
about inferring “the existence of an unseen order” in which the
“riddles of the natural order” can be explained.
...There’s more to God than making sense of things. But for religious believers, it’s a great start.
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