Evidence as private and public knowledge affects our perception of truth.
Science is a public knowledge because we need to prove it, to the eyes of someone else.
Religion is more a private experience. We try to look for our own experience with god in order to believe in him,
But there are other people who tell you you are wrong (in private experience) and this makes you doubt if your experience was true.
Placebo effect: when you believe something is caused by a variable, but really the variable has nothing to do.
Like when we get a headache and someone gives us a sugar pill and we believe that the "medicine" that the person gave us cured us.
Even if we value the scientific method, we have to agree that most of our knowledge comes from first hand experience, knowledge that is not scientifically verifiable.
There is a whole deal of public knowledge that cant be proved. So a lot of our life is just basically believing what other people say or tell us.
We take a leap of faith in order to really live in this world.
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