This comment is largely a variant on the usual &quot;science is just another belief like religion&quot;. It really isn&#x27;t. The far fringes of science that you need lots of eduction and tools to work with, sure, you need to take those on faith. But you don&#x27;t have to &quot;believe&quot; them, don&#x27;t have to take them on faith. Your life is not changed one iota if you personally believe in quantum mechanics or not.<p>Meanwhile, the bulk of science is in the human scale - you can do a ton of scientific experiments with the stuff in your house right now. There&#x27;s this misconception that &#x27;science=theoretical physics&#x27; and it&#x27;s just not so. You don&#x27;t need to trust that gravitational acceleration on earth is 9.8m&#x2F;s&#x2F;s, you can determine that yourself, easily. You don&#x27;t even have to use meters or seconds - use your own units. You will find that it works out the same anyway.<p>You can work out science from first principles and get a long way - the difference here with religion is that in religion, the first principles are not accessible to <i>anyone</i>. &quot;This book is holy because I was told it was holy&quot;. There&#x27;s no way to verify the initial state and work through from there.<p>Trying to paint science as this thing that exists only in our heads and investigating only the really tiny (quantum mechanics) or the really large (astrophysics) misses the vast bulk of the science we use as humans - the stuff that&#x27;s been tested again and again through use. The edge of science is where you&#x27;ll find conjecture, and hence a lot of trappings that sound like religion, but that&#x27;s not the whole of science, not by a long shot.