> With religious truths, on the other hand, investigations reach a dead end with "this is simply a matter of faith" or "you just have to feel this to believe it".
All truths reach this dead end, scientific or otherwise. If you don’t understand that the fundamental truths upon which all scientific enquiry is based are 100% taken on faith, then you very literally are practicing a religion in exactly the same way that an ignorant and non-curious fundamentalist would be.
All truths reach this dead end, scientific or otherwise. If you don’t understand that the fundamental truths upon which all scientific enquiry is based are 100% taken on faith, then you very literally are practicing a religion in exactly the same way that an ignorant and non-curious fundamentalist would be.