Steven Pinker makes case for human progress in ‘Enlightenment Now’

Re:Steven Pinker makes case for human progress in ‘Enlighten... by foldr on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:15PM (#16487018)

Faith doesn't mean 'belief without evidence'. That's a Richard Dawkins talking point, not anything you'll find in a dictionary. John could have excellent evidence for his own abilities, and yet his faith in those abilities could turn out to be misplaced.

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Re:Steven Pinker makes case for human progress in ‘Enlighten... by Stefan-H on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:57PM (#16487471)

"Not anything you will find in a dictionary" is a terrible bar to base something off of: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/faith Definition 2b. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/faith definition 2.

Using faith and belief interchangeably seems disingenuous and ignores the religious context that is part of faith. Faith implies a lack of compromise, a concreteness, and unwillingness to change. Using that term to describe evidence based science, and the belief that evidence ought to be presented before a belief is held is an attempt to reduce science to dogma.

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