Debate: Would you sooner let your faith rest with science or God?
Side: Both

I did agree with you. I just didn't like that one sentence and then it evolved into something else. But well put my friend. When I use the title of "god" I'm getting at the fact of the infinite. Something beyond our level of comprehension. I can see that if we keep up this argument we're going to touch on philosophy but what the heck. Again, man created words and gave meaning to those words. So by this alone, science has no power without belief. Because without belief in the meaning, words and symbols and everything we've created would not exist. Simply put, those words have meaning because we say they have meaning and the more you get to believe, the more it becomes a part of reality. Do you get my logic? Science was created as another way to understand life. The reason that science has become the most accepted means of "truth based reality" is because we can see it and for what we can't see we've used a genius little measuring tool called mathematics. We've evolved as very faith based societies into science based societies. Newtonian thinking ruled the physics world until Einstein came along. That did a 360 to the world of physics. But what happens if no one realized it? We would still believe and evolve off of those set principles. This is some ways how some aspects of science have become paradoxical in nature. And who's to say it's wrong, you can't. You say that "established religions have exact, stringent, unbending rules and ideas that they, and their flock adhere to". How is this any different than science? Science has the Law, which is exact. It has hypothesis which are ideas. Do you not see the parallels? 1+2=3 because we believe or say it does. We gave the 1 meaning that it was 1 but what if we got it wrong and it's really supposed to be 0 and all the computations we've created are flawed in someway? Science is not the answer to everything. (as much as I love it and I love proof)As for your last point, i think you missed my meaning all together. (hopefully my explanation above using the word "god" as infinite and beyond our capabilities of understanding will have shed light on were I lost you.) I'm using simple words so that I don't write a dissertation but i can see I'm getting close. (lol) Let me ask you a simple question. Why do you wake up everyday? What is the point of your existence? You're telling me that, in your life, you aren't doing things based off of discovering yourself or the world around you? Thus Science is where you rest your belief. The universe only exists because we gave it meaning and once we gave it meaning we have continued in a path to understand it. Why? To survive, to evolve, to continue the species, etc, etc? Maybe you see where I'm going with this, maybe you don't. Ok one last point, you said; "Science does not have "beliefs" it is not Dependant on a large number of people "believing" it. The world was round long before people believed it was round, and people still believed it was flat long after science had proven it to be round." You have faith/believe that your computations and equations are correct and logical. That is why science exists. That is your way of understanding the world around you. Because if it didn't exist, then neither would you. Who is to say that is the right answer? Science can only go so far to our level of understanding for the rest that's when religion/spirituality comes into play.