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Trust is trust, if you’ve delegated to others to decide for you what is true then how can you defend any position other than saying “But the source I trust says so” – why do you think I should place the same degree of trust as in the same people as you?

Delegating trust is how we cure diseases and get to the moon. The difference between science and religion is that science has a system for validating what we can trust. If you work your way up the chain, learning everything you need to know to determine if someone is using proper methods of logic and evidence, you will find questions that you have can be answered. When it gets to where no one knows, you’ll know why they don’t and what needs to be explored. Whatever can’t be answered can be described with a probability of confidence. If we didn’t have this, everyone would have to know everything for any decision to be made. That of course is impossible. Since not everyone can know everything, we have an open system where enough people work up that chain and check the work that has been done.

Religion outright states that there is mystery in the universe, but if you follow a mysterious path, you gain the knowledge, but then not be able to explain it, you’ll just know that you know.