M.D. The scientific method offers an objective way to evaluate information to determine what is false. Although the book focused on evolution, its reasoning is equally applicable to health-related issues. Scientific theories are explanations of natural phenomena built up logically from testable observations and hypotheses. . . .
Most religions have tenets of faith.
Science differs from religion because it is the nature of science to test and retest explanations against the natural world. Thus, scientific explanations are likely to be built on and modified with new information and new ways of looking at old information. This is quite different from most religious beliefs. If there is a component of faith to science, it is the assumption that the universe operates according to regularities. . . . The fine art of baloney detection.