Jeremiahcp
Well-Known Jerk
Yeah I understand that.
My point is we base our lives under the assumption that what we perceive is real and that is putting faith in something to some extent.
"Yeah I understand that."
I don't think you do. All you are doing is playing semantics, swapping in the word "delusion" for the word "reality", your argument is a moot point and changes nothing. If the scientific approach is based on reason in "reality" then it is based on reason in "delusion". It is a rational examination of the available evidence, and you calling that evidence a "delusion" does not change the fact that it is still a rational examination of the available evidence.
"My point is we base our lives under the assumption that what we perceive is real and that is putting faith in something to some extent"
Maybe that is what you do, but it is not what I do. I realize that everything I think I believe is likely wrong in some way and really is just an approximation of "reality".
That is how the scientific method works, it helps us analyze the data, but it does not tell us what is truth, as nothing is ever final in science and everything is up to be rebuked. Truth is final and it cannot be rebuked (people can deny it or not see it but you can't make truth untrue).
What we are doing is creating our best approximation give the available evidence if you want to decide that is the truth then that is up to you. Science is just a methodology for examining the evidence; people are the ones making claims about what that evidence proves.