[Fester Chugabrew]

You seem to be marking the above scenario as the equivalent of religious faith.

Not quite. The amount of observation and reporting of current history lends certitude where scientific statements are made. Nevertheless, we operate with less knowledge than we care to admit. Science is far more ignorant than it pretends to be. To suggest that I might be ready to deny facts of physics, biology, chemistry etc. because I do not believe in an unobserved, unrecorded rendition of history is merely to suggest a red herring. I'm used to it.

[Chiapet]

"To suggest that I might be ready to deny facts of physics, biology, chemistry etc...."

But that's exactly what you were doing in your earlier posts regarding the speed of light and the quantum mechanical description of light. It's there in your posts. I may not be a physicist, but I can read as well as the next person.