If I were an Atheist

[downbeatplumb]

The point is that scientific and religious "facts" alike are constructed by the truth-building activities of specialists. What becomes truth is what has gone through officially sanctioned channels of translation. (This in no way implies that there is no reality outside of human cognition, merely that our own decisions about what is true are relative).

The thing with science is that it is something that could conceivably be checked by other people. I may have to do a bit of research and get some tools but it is way of getting to truths dispassionately.

Religious "facts" are...... actually what is a religious "fact"? To be a fact you need evidence and religions don't have any, just very poor arguments. 

We may take the example of lab rats. For a member of, say, a tribe that believes in animism, dissecting lab rats and inputing the data into computers is meaningless.

What's your point?

 Various biological concepts are not sources of knowledge for the Inca.

So?

Similarly, one who is not a molecular biologist has no idea about what is going on when lab rats are dissected, and data is obtained from their entrails and uploaded into computers. What constitutes relevant evidence is decides by scientists.

So you have a problem with educated people.
This would appear to be an argument FOR ignorance.
Forgetting that science works and religions don't.

 Similarly, among the Inca, priests decides what constituted evidence of, say, a dog having mystical properties. The two systems of knowledge are different, but neither may be considered any less true. Because truth (and truth criteria) are social constructs does not make them invalid. Every assemblage, including truth assemblages (religion, science) are constructed by human and/or nonhuman actants. In a nutshell, this is the basic kernel of Latour-Woolgar's argument.

Truth is not a social construct.
What is true is not a matter of opinion or popularity contest what is true just is.
Science is the only method that works to get to the truth of matters because it has been made that way. The technigue refined over centuries so it now works fairly well. Its not perfect but it is better than the what went before which boiled down to what some people reckoned and ended up some some stupid beliefs like the ether and humors.