I believe in genetics, physiology, pharmacology, microbiology and biochemistry. I believe in the underlying chemical and biochemical relatedness of living things. I believe in the scientific method. I am not sure what “believing” in evolution does to make me a better scientist.
FairWitness, Ph.D., Biochemistry
Strictly defined, there is no "belief" in science, no "faith" and no "truth".
That's because science, at best, is merely a model of reality as we see or detect it, and all it's data, hypotheses and theories are only accepted conditionally -- until better data or theories come along.
When they do come along, and it happens every day at some level, then old ideas are overturned and new ones again conditionally accepted.
That's what makes science the opposite of religion, and why religious terms like "faith" or "truth" should not be used in scientific discourse.
It doesn't - it would make you a "more reliable, on the plantation, scientist"....in case they needed another voice to tout some "settled" science.