Why Science Can’t Replace Religion

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75. What unadulterated hogwash

Why do some people have this uncontrollable need to religify science, and to try to make science as much a matter of "faith" as religion? And why do such supposedly intelligent people need to resort to the same trick of blatant intellectual dishonesty OVER and OVER and OVER?

I would not have religious "faith" that something like the Higgs boson exists, if indeed the scientific community searching for it announced that such existence had very strong evidence in its favor, any more than I have "faith" that electrons, antibodies, tsetse flies and Brunei exist. I have confidence in the self-correcting mechanisms for gathering checking and reporting such information, even in cases where I cannot personally and directly verify the information myself, based on their past performance.

Apparently this author desperately needs his "other ways of knowing" as much as some people here do, while being just as unable to show us what they are, or what objective understanding they have produced.