Quote: SlagA @ December 15 2008, 7:38 PM GMTOddly my experience has been the opposite. I love science, I love organising data. But the more I study science, the more it makes me question the nature of reality and whether we can truly base our sum knowledge on our senses. While science (rightly so) decries closed minds wherever they occur in the religious viewpoint, it ignores its own amazing blindness in declaring that our 5 senses can, and do, define everything that is 'knowable' within the cosmos and beyond. Personally, I don't see full stops and neat tie-ups in Science but ever more loose ends that create ever more unsettling questions for me. In contrast, the more I learn, the more I'm questioning and redefining my belief system.
For me, to believe in something without proof is the same as choosing to not believe in something without proof. Whenever we accept or reject an idea (in the absence of real proof), we exert blind faith. It's just that if you exert blind faith in the scientific explanation it carries more credence and authority than if you choose a non-scientific alternative.
Will you ever write something I disagree with? 
Physics and cosmology blow my mind, I love learning as much about them as I possibly can. I don't know about your personal belief system, but for me it was delving into physics, especially quantum - looking at the very small systems, and cosmology - looking at the very large, that drew me towards the notion of design, as opposed to some obsurdly large set of coincidences.
And I've always thought about how arrogant science is to presume we are able to see everything that is here. We don't even see objects or the world around us directly - it's just a second-hand interpretation constructed inside our brains. How do we know what's really there?
No.