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...but it is faith in rational inquiry that makes us think it is worth doing.  if we didn't believe rational inquiry would lead us to the answer we wouldn't do it.

The church has never indiscriminately massacred pagans nor can the church condone this as it is against our ways. 

A different sense of 'faith in science' is believing that rational enquiry will continue to reveal truths and eliminate errors.  

A biologist woking on abiogenesis or cancer research might fail to crack a prolem, but will still have have faith that the problem will be cracked one day.

One sense is  that 'scientific facts can be trusted', such as 'water boils at 100 degrees' and 'water is h2o'.   

I thought we agreed that science does not require faith.

Please explain.

Negative, notice we have not established anything further than the emboldened portion and we never agreed that science does not require faith.  I am referring back to my initial assumption of what you meant by "faith in science", which at least makes sense.  There is nothing else for me to refer to.

I'll never ask you 'Do you think it will rain?'.!

Do you think there is a significant (say >1%) chance of the super-duper time-travelling alien scenario is correct?

Faith in science has already been offered, so it doesn't make sense for a lack of science to be a cause requiring faith.

Thinking that he can is not faith.  It appears I have assumed your meaning incorrectly.

"Jesus is God" is a theological statement.   All things are possible through God.  It just happens that Christianity is "The Way"

i'm asking if you think we will find one.

Yeah, I guess so.  I thought that's what you asked for.

...But if one has faith in science you don't think that will ever happen.

Faith in science is the belief that science is the best way to discover what is true and what is false.     

Islam butchered its way far west into Europe up into France and Spain. North west to the Caucuses. As far east a China and down into the Indian subcontinent raping robbing maiming and murdering and converting by the sword as it went. It appears this  fool likes to believe  that the indigenous peoples of the "conquered lands" simply welcomed them in and willingly converted to Islam Without so much as a by your leave' and that it had absolutely nothing to do with a fkn sword and the threat of death.

A good scientist is faithful to the scientific method. A scientist who is not faithful to scientific methodology is hardly a scientist.

Please provide even a single example (counter-factual) of a religious belief that CAN be tested.

Dogma (The earth is flat), logic, and predictions

Scientific "faith" (high confidence) is belief in something that can be tested (like turning on a light switch).

Calculating a probability and showing your work with a margin of error isn't the same as holding conviction, going forth and turning on a light switch.  We've established that much.  

At first glance this looks unreasonable as you can't prove that all religions cannot be tested.

Mehmed II introduced the word Politics into Arabic "Siyasah" from a book he published and claimed to be the collection of Politics doctrines of the Byzantine Caesars before him. He gathered Italian artists, humanists and Greek scholars at his court, allowed the Byzantine Church to continue functioning, ordered the patriarch Gennadius to translate Christian doctrine into Turkish

This seems like a non sequitur to me, so if you would explain what you are trying to say.

I have no "common ground" with you...

so if it "perfect" it don't need altering or reforming or dragging into the 21st century.  

Nice try, accept for the the silly schoolboy error. 

Being a Muslim does not in-and-of-itself make you a terrorist.

And you won't find anywhere on this forum where I have even suggested that never mind said it.

Read the article

But that is the difference between Islam and Christianity. We are a lot nicer.

Maybe if we chopped people's hands off for theft or stoned adulterers to death people would remember this stuff is bad.

These limitations mitigate the confidence of the results.  This confidence is Quantifiable.  It's called "Sigma" and it NEVER REACHES 100%.

Approaching this with an open mind, that sounds like glorified statistics.  That is not how I understand science.

...and you are going to take a leap of faith in order to test the theory.

Maybe use fancy Greek words that you don't really know the meaning of.

You are unwilling to go through the process to see things for yourself.

I assume you mean by faith in science you are essentially referring to the idea that without having done so, you will be able to duplicate the scientific methodology, and you are going to take a leap of faith in order to test the theory.  Just because you are imagining a cathode collecting hydrogen bubbles and an anode collecting oxygen bubbles doesn't make the faith itself distinguishable from faith in anything else.

The fact that homosexual's aren't chucked into furnaces is an act of charity...

I have always been very thorough at explaining myself when the opportunity arises. 

I would say you can have a confident attitude independent of faith.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that people are misusing the word to be subversively offensive.  One must be fooled to think otherwise.  An aspect I find most appropriate from citing Hebrews is that their faith is not a self-righteous conception of belief.

Yet if I insist you do not understand, you arrogantly persist in the delusion that you know better.

Which of those are radical right wing? 

100% confidence is knowing, which is faith.  Faith is not synonymous with that level of confidence.

All of which are responsible for Atrocities domestically and across the globe in the name of God.

Christianity is Truth worship through the purifying of the intellect. This is not a superstitious faith.

The "hard data" is different from the "bronze age superstition".  Faith is still faith, and I'm guessing you believe that faith in "bronze age superstition" is misplaced.

I suppose one could argue that the a-prefix means it's a binary thing, but wikipedia has a page on that.