By your own admission you are mind reading others.
I’m not “mind reading” you, I’m “mind-reading” someone else from the past, and when I have been given the chance to drill down, they do expressly admit that their faith is not in any god, it is in science itself.
That seems to me to be inconsistent with your previous complaint about someone mind reading you.
So you not only think Science is Religion, you also think it is History? Anything else you want to throw in there?
***This is classic mind reading, as well as straw argumentation. I can state categorically that what you claim I think is not what I really do think.
It would help a lot if Kev would simply link to an instance where a believer in scientism admitted that science is a religion.
I will certainly accept as fact that evolution is frequently called a religion on this forum, but I can’t recall any evilutionist accepting that characterization, or accepting the notion that evolution includes supernatural causes in its explanations.
My understanding of the rules of ecumenic threads is that we are not allowed to mindread each other. I can’t mindread you and you cannot mindread me. But we’ve all had experiences where our discussions bore fruit to an actual admission by someone when they were honest about what they believe. Free Republic might not be the best place to try to find such examples, for many reasons. At any rate, mindreading 3rd parties is apparently not against the rules of ecumenical threads, and the examples I cited showed that at least 2 of my interactions led to actual admissions.
I have also seen one time on a TV documentary — something on PBS about the evolution controversy in America — where a scientist admitted such beliefs. But I don’t remember the name of the documentary.