>>51545261> I don’t really see how science serves as a religion for anyone other than those who don’t actually understand how it worksOh yeah, this is the case, and I didn't say otherwise.
Basically people, in a way, didn't really change, they just changed their religious fervor from the traditional religions to an idealization of what science is It seems that people will always be irrationally passionate about something that in modern times seems to be "science" (or an idea of it that people that, as you said, have no idea how science works).
And, as I said, this is both an issue on the general public AND the "science"(the experts themselves, the institutions, the whole pack).
Of course this doesn't mean "science doesn't work" or that its fake or anything like that. Its just that people are involved in it.
I feel the other anon meant "people see religion as science" rather than literally "science is the new religion".
That said, there's also the fact that one has a single life and you can't major in everything. At some point you'll have to "trust the experts"(which of course can be wrong, both for good or malicious reasons) to some degree, which does require some "faith" without verification.
