This argument is, on occasion, presented by my fellow Christians in an effort to devalue the scientific community, and then somehow place additional value on themselves. Really, there is no need; science and religion need not be mutually exclusive. Evolution does not countermand the existence of God, and the line of discourse is antithetical to the elevation of faith.
The argument that science equates with faith is a poor one. A fundamental examination of epistemology yields a differentiation between knowledge and belief. Traditionally labeled as 'justified true belief', knowledge must be extrapolated from the observable. Belief, by contrast, relies on the existential claim for validity. As such, the two remain exclusive, as one may present the observable phenomena and hold truth in the supernatural, while another may present the same phenomena with an absence of the supernatural. Accordingly, unfaith and faith are not interchangeable nomenclature. To do so is to attempt to label standing as 'unsitting'. While superficially true, it does not account for the varia of other positions and activities that would also be relevant.
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