[jejones]

That scientific theories tell us what some aspect of the world is like "in reality", while in fact, they only provide an imperfect and incomplete model of that aspect of the world.

You left out the part about the models being replaced with better ones as time goes on. This is a major advantage of science over religion.

[Aurelius]

"You left out the part about the models being replaced with better ones as time goes on. This is a major advantage of science over religion."

Yes, but the old scientists often fight that change almost as hard as the church went against Galileo.

You know, by the way, one of the cardinals told Galileo he was free to teach the heliocentric hypothesis as a computational method, he just couldn't say that it was the way things "really were". Of course it took several centuries before the heliocentric model was refined to were it was as accurate for computation as the geocentric model of Ptolemy.

[TigersEye]

You left out the part about the models being replaced with better ones as time goes on. This is a major advantage of science over religion.

C'mon now. Don't be an historical dogmatist. Name me one religion that hasn't changed over time.