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I am so tired of people implying that they believe in science. Science is not a religion requiring belief.

Science is a way of postulating that something may be real given the a available evidence. A true scientist should be ready to change their understanding of “real” when presented with new evidence.

Belief or faith is trusting something is real without evidence and is the antithesis of science.

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Define evidence, please.

Evidence is just data which is collected with the best available methods. With eyes, ears or some engineered equipment.

If perspective changes, we did not have enough data.

The knowledge comes when hard science is applied on this data, e.g math or logic.

We will never have enough data. Avalibe methods for collecting data are develop with time. So if you decide to believe science, you just agree with statement of actuall knowledge.

Temperature rising is science. Is it natural proces? Well that depends if you choose to believe or not in actual knowledge.

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