[GoNative]

It is ridiculous to believe in something for which there is no proof. How is it not? If I told you that I was a messenger from god and he talks to me daily and has instructed me to create a religion where all the followers should give me 10% of their annual income and allow me the choice of virgins from my followers to marry as I pleased. Would you think me a complete nutcase or possibly just a leader in the Mormon church? Or would you think wow here is obviously someone touched by the lord and start giving me money? You will never be able to find proof that the lord does not speak to me but is it reasonable in the absence of proof to conclude that what I claim is believable? Of course not that is just ridculous.

It is just as ridiculous to believe something that is purported to be science with no real proof that it is. Has the methodolgy been reviewed by the persons peers? Are the conclusions a reasonable interpretatin of the data and results? The beauty of science is that such skepticism is encouraged and essential to the scientific process. People can't just make claims that can't be disproven like those made by religions. Science can be tested by others and over time be confirmed as valid or needing more research or be disproven. Science is not about absolutes, it doesn't require faith to believe. It requires rigorous adherance to a set of principles based on logical and reasoned thought processes which, unlike religions, are refined and improved as more knowledge is accumulated over time. There are plenty of theories in science which are not proven. But I don't have to believe in all these theories to be a follower of 'science' because science is not based on blind faith.
Your ideas about science show an incredible lack of knowledge about how science works. You live in a world surrounded by technology, all created from the same science that you seem to distrust so much. You are completely surrounded by science in your everyday life but choose to be ignorant of it? Must be an interesting world to blindly accept all the science that surrounds you with little understanding of it and to also blindly accept the supernatural as well. Of course religions are certainly not based on any sort of logic or reason, just blind, unquestioning faith. Such principles are not applicable in science.

And as I stated earlier the world is a magical, wonderful place. Science is the way to understand and open your mind to these wonders. The more you learn the more questions arise and the more exciting your quest for knowlege becomes. This idea that the world is a more amazing place believing in the supernatural is a silly one often used by those who find the world around them a mysterious place due to their utter ignorance of it.