[Stone Mountain]

Your beliefs are based on a set of assumptions, in which you place your faith. Same here, just different assumptions.

Actually, no. The difference is that in science, those assumptions are challengable and can change if evidence comes up to support a change in those assumptions. Basing all your assumptions on a pre-written text is very different - it provides no mechanism to deal with conflict. I often hear people criticizing scientific theories because they keep changing. As we say in computer science, that's not a bug, it's a feature!

Note that I'm not defending evolutionary theory or any other scientific theory in the preceding paragraph. Just explaining the difference in assumptions used by scientists as opposed to assumptions from religious-based beliefs.

[balrog666]

Basing all your assumptions on a pre-written text is very different - it provides no mechanism to deal with conflict.

Basing all your assumptions on a literal interpretation of a Bronze Age text is very different - it provides no mechanism to deal with conflict.