[Boogieman]

“While science advances and corrects the mistakes of past theory, religion remains mired in the ancient quicksand of superstitions and mythology.”

I’m sure that’s a reassuring view for you to choose to believe, but the fact remains that science can never hope to answer any of the really important questions in life. They don’t even attempt to address them, because they are outside the reach of the scientific method.

So saying that you base your beliefs on science, while it may sound quite logical and sensible, really just means you have given up on the really weighty intellectual matters and concern yourself only with the fluff.

[FBD]

“I’m sure that’s a reassuring view for you to choose to believe, but the fact remains that science can never hope to answer any of the really important questions in life. They don’t even attempt to address them, because they are outside the reach of the scientific method.”

- I agree. That's what the study of philosophy is for. I'm currently studying the categorical imperative and moral absolutes. Very thought provoking stuff.

“So saying that you base your beliefs on science, while it may sound quite logical and sensible, really just means you have given up on the really weighty intellectual matters and concern yourself only with the fluff.”

- I will confess that I don't find faith based ideologies that revolve around a human sacrifice for eternal life very intellectual, or weighty.
40 years of church, twice on Sundays and Wednesday night bible studies was enough for me to finally put away those childish things.