Is science a religion?

or a science?

Science is science.

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evidence-based knowledge versus faith-based knowledge

i'd say science is a religion but just a more believable one

Science is like math. It's a religion in some sense, but a well-defined one that doesn't really involve human issues in the way that christianity and other major religions do.

It's completely up to the individual. Some followers of science definitely take all of it in as belief, in which case I would answer yes, it is a religion to that person.

However, taking in science as mere belief is basically contradictory. Almost all scientific discovery begins with skepticism, which is incompatible with belief. It is very important for a scientist to not stand on anything as an absolute truth except for what we know is absolutely objective, which basically leaves math and basic logic.

As mentioned, science is reliant on evidence. If the evidence changes, so does science*. Religion can have its "evidence" thrown about, and nothing changes, as it isn't based on evidence at all, so as a whole I would gander my answer to be "No."

*It also depends on your definition of "science," as in whether or not you consider science to be popularly believed science or science as in the objective scientific method (which like I notioned can be stripped down to mere logic). For instance, the scientific community in America a few hundred years ago thought they had physical evidence of why brains of white people were superior to those of darker-skinned minorities, when in reality neurophysics didn't even exist then and no one understood how the brain worked at all. Science itself hasn't changed at all since then, but popular belief among the scientific community has obviously wisened up.