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Reply report Mon 23 Dec, 2013 06:56 am
Actually, we shouldn't believe in evolution. It's not a belief, a myth, a religion or a fantasy. Use the term belief for those things, not for scientific observations that have been independently vetted and confirmed. If you want to reject them, then use terms like reject or accept. But don't muddy the waters by applying the standards of religion to those of science. They are apples and oranges. "
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A belief is acting on one of two or more unproved or unprovable propositions. This is especially true of science, as it is of religion.
Here, an appeal to the consensus (regarding the rationality of science) avoids the very thing that is in question - the extent of the rationality of science.