Convert me!

[Napoléon]

The main truth I've found is "I / we don't know". That truth stinks.

Sure there's a lot we don't know, but there's also a lot we do know. That is thanks to the scientific method. The thing that sets apart the scientific method from every other way of discerning truth is that it actually works.

If you think that sucks, then more fool you.

That's why we wrap everything in simplified models which distil the bits we think we do know into bitesize chunks. Trouble is the models are almost always oversimplified! That's not truth, it's a different flavour lie.

I don't really get what you are going on about here. Science is not a lie, everything confirmed by science has been tested and proven.

Religion has not. Fairy tales, have not.

Who in their right mind chooses fairy tales over science. It's a purely ignorant way to observe the universe, and gets us nowhere in terms of actual intellectual development if we sit there and say we already have all the answers.

Now it's fine to say that if you actually do have the answers (the truth), but we don't. That's why science trumps religion every fucking time, because science acknowledges that we don't know something, and then comes up with testable, provable hypotheses to try and answer the question.

So science doesn't explain everything. At least it works at gaining the answers we seek.

Religion on the other hand, explains nothing, and doesn't even attempt to work on any questions at all.