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Science most certainly isn't built upon faith.

I don't know about the wax story, but I do know that Descartes was in the process of trying to determine if anything really existed. He noticed whatever he contemplated there was one thing which there was no getting around. His thoughts existed. Hence, "I think, therefore I am".

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When you burn your hand on an oven, how is that truth? Because your nerves tell your brain it hurts? How do you think and have consciousness? How do you learn not to touch the stove anymore in the future. I don't see how that is supposed to represent truth.

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Truth is knowledge. Knowledge is evidence. When you burn your hand on a stove you have sensory evidence that it hurt. Evidence = Knowledge = Truth.