Blog post: swansont: I Believe This is a Good Point

There are plenty of other scientists out there that don’t like the use of the word “believe.†Kevin Padian, of the University of California, Berkeley, wrote an open-access article about science and evolution, entitled “Correcting some common misrepresentations of evolution in textbooks and the media.†He states:

 

“Saying that scientists ‘believe’ their results suggests, falsely, that their acceptance is not based on evidence, but is based somehow on faith.â€