Is Faith and Superstition are two sides of the same coin?

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Re: Is Faith and Superstition are two sides of the same coin?

@NeSCio

there are several schools of thought in the scientific world (e.g. Karl Popper etc) that argue that nothing can be proven. Only thing you can do is refute hypotheses, but you cannot prove anything. So, extrapolating that, it means that all science is faith (or if you want superstition, although I agree with picoico that faith and superstition are not the same)

The definitions of, “Faith” and “Superstition” are based on common sense, i.e. When they say, that “Faith is something that have no proofs”, then in that context, science is accepted as something which have “proofs”, something which can show you the proofs, by offering you the luxury to test empirically. Faith can’t offer you any such thing, it will only ask you to accept.

Now if we look at it in the context of what Popper says then, the terms like “Faith”, “Superstition” don’t apply, if someone insists, then the terms need new definitions, because obviously there is alot of difference between accepted science and religious dogma/superstition. So we can’t treat the both i mean faith/superstition and science the same by appealing to Popper.