Gerald R. Baron
1 min readSep 30, 2021

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Hello Reverend, don't you think that the information or evidence we gather from our sense organs is subject to interpretation? The fact that different witnesses to an accident or crime often see very different details tells us that our mechanisms for capturing, processing and storing information is far from fool proof. I don't see how the fact that we depend on our senses (plus our rational faculties) to arrive at truth eliminates the faith of scientists. As I have pointed out in other responses, faith in the bible is defined as evidence of things unseen. We have faith in dark matter even though so far it has eluded any method of seeing it despite the amazing technological enhancements to our senses. We can't see the multiverse and most agree it is beyond any possible observation, yet a great many scientists exhibit great faith in it. Many also exhibit faith in the brain producing mind and in chemistry producing life from non-life, yet the possibility of those two being resolved seem more distant than ever. I think it is quite logical to say that scientists exhibit faith. Indeed, I believe that faith is often necessary for them to do the work they do.

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Gerald R. Baron
Gerald R. Baron

Written by Gerald R. Baron

Dawdling at the intersection of faith, science, philosophy and theology. Author of It Was My Turn, a Vietnam story.

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