The dictionary is wrong – science can be a religion too

[DetlefK]

7. Too many believe in scientific facts without understanding them.

Not kidding, found in a video at the pseudoscience-forum:
String-theory. -> "Strings" that "vibrate". -> Sound is a vibration. -> You can heal a person by manipulating her "energy" with sound.


I consider this to be the problem:
Science has advanced so far, that it has become too abstract for the vast majority of people to understand. Of course, in theory, all of science is understandable, because it's verifiable. But in practice, one's intellect is the limit. Your imagination is the limit in theoretical sciences, but can only travel so far into the swamp of the abstract before you get stuck.
Of course, you could declare the swamp of "I-know-that-I-don't-know" you are in to be the solid ground of knowledge, by means of belief, and go forth with your expedition. But don't forget: As you made that land, you laid the seeds for the paths you will find in it. There is no guarantee, that the comfortable paths in the land of "belief" will lead you to the same places of enlightenment as the tricky and exhausting paths of the swamp would.




Sorry, if that sounded too esoteric. I'm a scientist myself and I tried to mold the mental struggle for knowledge into words to the best of my abilities.