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This is what I said before. "Scientific" faith is a feeling that things are as your experiments or theories show. This is a legitimate belief not requiring supernatural power. Nothing to do with religious faith. Every scientist should believe in certain laws of nature or his/her results as a working hypothesis. And this is not religion, IMHO. Most people here debated about religious faith that may or may not come into play when we truly don't understand anything. This is why I quoted Laplace because his scientific method did not need a supernatural power to explain laws of astronomy. But again, it is very tempting to invoke such power when one cannot understand things especially when one cannot "feel and touch" them and a lot of proofs are indirect and abstract.
So, IMHO, there is faith in the veracity of certain things and religious faith in a supernatural power that can explain everything but does not necessarily lead to the forward movement of scientific quest.