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then aren’t you admitting that so far you haven’t known the answer?

That's the point of science. Humility and requestioning yourself everytime someone gives new input, instead of sticking to some old text that some human wrote and multiple other humans over a long period of time, translated; all using lossy translation techniques.

This mentality is similar to what you will see from many people in places of power (no matter how small), trying to evade criticism using the same social power that they need to be responsible about. Just that in case of religion, one has found a scapegoat, so unassailable that it can be reused indefinitely.

You can see, which approach is more desirable by simply considering the following facet of the result that we have when we have a science majority vs a religion majority...

• In times when religious organisations were in power, those who criticised them were killed and their works destroyed to as much of an extent as possible
• In times when scientific thought was prevalent (scientific organisations don't get social power owing to their lack of charisma, which stems from the very basic attribute of the modern philosophy of science - that one can be wrong) the religious organisations criticising science are not destroyed until almost extinction, but are allowed to question all results and have the opportunity to aggregate their views.
  • You will always see some kind of religion vs another
  • You might see "science-ism" vs some other religion
  • You will see political orgs (which represent one of the peaks of social power in the current age) vs some politico-religional orgs trying to destroy and silence the other
  • You will not see science trying to silence a religion
  • You will see businessmen trying to use scientific results as a stepladder to social power. You will also see them fail in the long term, simply due to the nature of science.