[K T Ong]

Neb about summed it up for me. I can elaborate more in a near-future post, but for now let me add that, like religion, science actually also contains a lot of things the validity of which cannot be established through either empirical experimentation or logical/mathemathical argument/proof. They must be accepted on grounds of faith.

Take the belief that there is order and regularity in the Universe, that all things in the Universe follow 'laws of nature'. How are you going to demonstrate this to me? And yet it is one of the cornerstones of science.

Face it -- science is a religion, too, however much pro-science people may think otherwise.