Explain exactly why science is a religion?
It has a hierarchy, it's primarily used now (although I'll agree not always) to make money for the moneyed, and to take money from the poor (oh look, more results from a scientist that confirm what the people paying his funding want found).
It's also blindly followed by people (your average person in the street) who'll oooh and aaah at the things they see in the media that science will do for them in xx amount of years (most of which never materialise), the scientists are of course receiving massive funding (both out of public money and from private corporations). How is that different from preachers in the past promising people will goto heaven if they pay 10% of their wages to the church?
One is offering to better this life if you'll just throw them some extra money, the other a better life in the next.
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With science, if you find any proof that contradicts what science already knows, science itself will change.
I've never seen proof that the theory of evolution is any more true than that crazy creationist theory - but scientists still parrot it like it's fact.
There have been lots of studies that haven't found what the drugs companies wanted them to find so results have been massaged (just look at thalidomide, and thats not the only drug - people are maimed and dying so big-pharma can make ever more profits).
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I also find it odd that people like to distance themselves away from science but are willing to put up with the things that come out of it. Like the computer one uses for example
people put up with lots they don't like, thats the curse of the modern world. At least the computer could be useful in the overthrowing of the dominant power structures currently in place (which are supported by science).
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or going to the hospital for vaccine shots.
