(November 28, 2014 at 4:57 am)ManMachine Wrote: [...] but the delusion that somehow science delivers a better 'truth' is absurd.
The truths may or may not be equal, depending your own lights and how they illuminate your world. But science delivers facts about the observable world, something religion is particularly ill-equipped to do.
I've seen the phenomenon you're writing about myself; I've gotten it when my opinion cuts against the grain too. Your point, that the problem lies in human nature, is spot-on.