Heavy, weary sigh……..
One more time from the top.
“Materialists,” “scientists,” etc… (at least the ones worth listening to) are NOT saying, “Nothing exists if we haven’t YET found it.
What they are saying is, in effect, if X cannot be measured – even theoretically – then:
a) It does not exist in any meaningful sense, or, more important:
b) It cannot be an object of scientific inquiry.
The “faith” at the root of the scientific worldview is fundamentally different from the faith that props up religion.
Call it soft faith – the faith that amply confirmed observations are reliable things upon which to base one’s belief system, for the time being.
If this is faith, then the word faith is really too blunt an instrument to be of any service to any discussion. It is reduced simply to anything that is believed without 100 percent certainty – i.e., everything anyone believes, has believed, or ever will believe.
