[themitigating]

Science is different from religion in that it could be wrong and the basis is empirical tests.

Religion is never wrong, faith is believing without evidence, and religion doesn't test it claims

[b800h]

> Religion is never wrong

That is complete rubbish. There are plenty of examples from East and West. In certain parts of China, rival monasteries would have a throwdown over theology, hold a debate, and the losing monastery would convert.

The difference is that Theology can take personal experience as a logical prior, and work from there. Often that is the grappling hook thrown over a chasm which allows a bridge to be built to a new level of understanding. A bit like the way that infinitesimals are used as a device in the derivation of calculus.

[matthewdgreen]

One of the great (if unfortunate) advances in human society was the discovery that “personal experience” is a very unreliable way to learn about the world.

[themitigating]

Does God exist? Maybe?

Theological differences are interpretations.

[AnonCoward42]

That is a game of motte and bailey really. The hard definition of science is another than the one we've seen over the years in mass media.

[themitigating]

The "mass media" is not one organization. I haven't seen any news reports redefining what science is, feel free to provide evidence of that. Finally it's not a game of definitions because science has a specific meaning. You can't just change that meaning (even if you add a captial S) then be critical about it.

You're critical because some organization in the government lied? Nothing to do with science

You're mad because some scientist committed fraud? Nothing to do with science.

Peer reviewers aren't properly checking papers, that's their fault and or their university/company. Nothing to do with science.

The majority of scientists believed something through experiments that were faulty or limited data then later turned out to be wrong? That's how it works, science isn't perfect but what's the alternative?

If you aren't an expert in a field or willing to put massive amounts of time in researching something but you have to make a decision doing whatever the majority of people in a field say is the most logical course of action