At the Wall Street Journal a god-soaked idiot tried to pretend religious stupidity is equal to scientific ideas.

The comment I wrote:

"At Its Heart, Science Is Faith-Based Too"

This seems very dishonest to me. The author is pretending he can justify faith in supernatural fantasies by comparing it to "faith" that some scientific idea will eventually be shown to be true.

In science faith is not allowed and scientists never use the word. Stuff has to have evidence. If the evidence hasn't yet been discovered then it's just an idea or hypothesis, not yet a fact. Scientists could say it's likely to be true but we can't be sure because more research is required. They certainly would not say "I have faith this idea is correct."

In religion faith is required because the supernatural magical stuff could never possibly have any real evidence, aka strong evidence, aka evidence that doesn't require dead witnesses. Religious people say faith is a virtue but that's totally wrong. Faith is just an excuse to believe in nonsense.

To help people understand I suggest Jerry Coyne's "Faith vs. Fact, Why Science And Religion Are Incompatible".

http://www.wsj.com/articles/at-its-heart-science-is-faith-based-too-1457049114