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Originally Posted by Splorf22
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This sentence seems simply contradictory to me. Science is nothing but the repeated application of the scientific method. But maybe what you are trying to say is that you don't consider choosing the empirical answer an act of faith but instead reason.
In that case I submit that science clearly requires faith. Remember Popper: science is the set of theories that 1) are testable and 2) have not yet been proven false. So even when you make the 'logical' decision you are to some extent making a leap of faith, and those theories are falsified all the time: think grue/bleen or Newton's laws of motion or a turkey's estimate of a farmer's concern for his well-being. Even worse, you have to believe in the predictability of the universe - something you cannot by definition prove inductively.
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Hence why they are called theories you use them because they are the best of what we know with the information we are able to obtain.
Scientists have trust or confidence in the scientific method because of its repeated history of solving problems or questions. There is much evidence to support this with hundreds or thousands of years of testable data.