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“Science requires faith too before it can have reasons.” —- Richard Dawkins[/quote]

??? Dawkins is a notorious atheist, so ths is likely taken out of context. Don't pretend that he's espousing revealed wisdom like from the Bible.[/quote]
Physicist from page 1 here. I don't know the context of the Dawkins quote, and it's doubtful that me and PP you are responding to interpret it similarly. But IMHO the scientific method requires faith that it's a useful framework for better understanding ground truths about the world around us. We know that what we observe/measure loses some information, but we have faith that the scientific method allows us to put limits on that uncertainty and improve our understanding.

Religion requires faith that foundational texts and teaching provide a framework for understanding a deeper truth about life. Unlike the scientific method, there isn't a shared and accountable objectivity...so it's necessarily more personal/individual.[/quote]

But which texts?  The Bible (which Christians, other than the Jews for Jesus, do not follow), the Koran? The Vedantic Scriptures?[/quote]
The point of saying it's personal/individual is that religion isn't accountable and objectively verifiable by others...so this question is somewhat meaningless. That's why religion is limited as a framework for civic discourse in a secular society. And, frankly, it's limited even in a society that shares a religion unless there is some kind of recognized authority for interpreting the religion. In many non-Abrahamic religions, this isn't really part of religious traditions.[/quote]

Jihads. Crusades. The Inquisition. Torture. Forced conversions. Witch trials. Holocausts. Religion has caused more evil than anything else ever has. In John Lennon’s “Imagine,” the world had no religion. [/quote]

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