well, even tho, personally, i dont thoroughly understand all science, that doesnt make me a blind believer. science transcends language and culture, and its validity is verifiable by anyone able and willing to recreate the variables.

nobody knows what is true, whether it be religion or science. all scientific laws are theories: they get added, deleted and morphed as our knowledge expands. to me religion is truly blind faith, with all scriptures undergoing a myriad of interpretations as each individual sees fit, and still, in the end, each religious individual lay claim that their own interpretation irrevocably true.

i do agree that i put my faith in science because it conforts me. but its not that simple. i believe in science because my brain is wired in a way that i am not able to kid myself so-to-speak. also, i dont HAVE to believe in science, as if it is a religion, i just do. religious folks NEED religion, and they fall into religion for many different reasons... all seem to stem from either a molded upbringing, a driving fear of the "or else youll go to hell" complex (i just made that up btw ), or their personal experiences that they cannot explain, so they turn to religion for answers and get drawn in by the rhetoric.

i am content and very understanding of the fact that science cannot answer all my questions, and never will. this is unsettling to many who need, and strive to know the truth RIGHT NOW.

also, i disagree whole heartedly with this statement:

"in some ways we are all addicted to our prejudices."

if it was somehow made clear that everything in the bible was absolute truth, then i would be the first person to flip flop and i am confident that most scientists would be right by my side. but if somehow you made religionists aware than everything we know about science is completely accurate, you would not have such a turnover.

based off the reasons i delineated, to me, science could not be further removed from religion. furthermore, i feel that as a species, we are naturally predisposed to religion (science is much too cerebral). since the dawn of our species we have believed in the supernatural because there were many things we didnt understand, and many variables in our environment that we sought to control (but powerless to do so ourselves; weather, food sources, safety) because our very existence relied heavily on those variables. we're talking tens of thousands of years ago. the only thing that has changed is the direction of our prayers.