[ysofunny]

I found that the line "science is a certain kind of persuassion" quite informative. I was not aware of such a skeptical thread of thought near science

[zeptian]

End of the day, there are many belief systems that we human hold onto, but we need a method to settle opinion.

And science happens to be a certain kind of a method for settling opinion.

CS Peirce wrote about it so beautifully in his 1877 essay: "On the fixation of belief". go read it. here is a link saving you a google search. https://www.peirce.org/writings/p107.html

[jeffreyrogers]

The comment was edited after I commented, it was originally much less substantive, and is improved now.