&gt; If you are religious, then you either think that religion is a valid alternative to science for certain problems, or that testable predictions are not important in some domains.<p>Testable predictions aren&#x27;t even <i>applicable</i> in some domains.  (e.g., fundamental moral principles.) Science can tell you whether certain actions fulfill a given set of moral principles, but it only answers &quot;is&quot; questions, and not fundamental &quot;ought&quot; questions. (It can sometimes answer <i>derivative</i> &quot;ought&quot; questions once you use some other means to select the answers to fundamental &quot;ought&quot; questions.)<p>&gt; Which is to say, either you think that scientific reasoning isn&#x27;t always a good way to understand our world, or you don&#x27;t think understanding how our world works is really so important.<p>Or, you think that there are things worth considering <i>besides</i> the mechanics of how our world works. Certainly, some take the view that this <i>is</i> the only class of thing worth considering but this view is, itself, a quasi-religious and not-scientific view (and, as it is not a view about how the world works, somewhat self-inconsistent to hold in any case.)