TanDL
Well, here’s my two bits on Science and religion: Science isn’t a static artform. You can rely on science to tell the truth based on research and objective testing… until something new is discovered that totally upends what we knew to be the truth. Smoking was safe, Neanderthals were more like apes than human, animals have no intelligence, colds were caused by staying out too long in the rain, the earth was flat, atoms were the smallest particles in the universe, the theory of relativity was the ultimate truth in physics, the 1960s food pyramid was the way Americans should always eat, etc., etc., ad infinitum. There are hundreds, if not thousands of scientific discoveries that have upended solid scientific “truths” about our world and there are surely more to come. Religion is about belief.. and so to some degree is science. I try to look at both with a skeptical eye and thoughtful instinct. Sometimes I get it as wrong as both.