superstition
Superstition (English: Superstition) is a certain thing confused and do not know what, but blindly believe it. Encarta encyclopedia on the "superstition" is defined as: irrationally believe that a certain behavior or ritual has a magical effect. "Superstition" more inclined to "blindly believe, do not understand the believe." Therefore, theoretically, human beings may have a "superstition" concept for anything, even if some people are engaged in scientific work, but they will also hold some kind of "scientific superstition". But science itself is important to superstition, faith, or religion. Science requires skepticism in nature and openly advocates skepticism in practice. Skepticism requires analytical thinking and critical thinking, asking to doubt everything, that is, not to believe any unconfirmed things. To have confirmed things, but also to doubt the limitations of time and space and observe the accuracy. Unconfirmed theory is called hypothesis or conjecture, and hypothesis or conjecture is entirely possible to prove to be wrong. The wrong hypothesis or conjecture must be discarded. ...