If I might summarize this piece: "religion is true by assumption."

Quoting a few pre-20th century examples of science isn't cutting it. And the COVID thing is actually an example of science at its best - constant study, refinement, changing hypotheses, searching for the correct answer. It's what makes the system work. People freak out when the science changes because they want it to be a religion and just have all the answers. That's not how it works. The difference is, science keeps searching.

Religion, on the other hand, has never been proven right about anything...which is fine. You can't prove there's a God (sorry Evangelicals) you can't prove there isn't (sorry atheists). There's no point in trying.

But what you've done here - that is, quote a few examples of science evolving its theories vs. just a few Bible quotes and "one day we'll be proved right" - doesn't prove or disprove anything. It isn't even illuminating, except to remind us that the religious mind has its mind made up in advance.

The truth is this: if I could prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that Jesus never rose from the dead, Christianity would continue on as if that never happened. I'd go into hiding, though, since shooting the messenger has a long history.

On the other hand, I have no problem with religion. Quite a few of my favorite people are believers. The problem is when people oif faith decide their (completely unproven and unprovable) faith should be writing the laws and governing the nation.

It's weird, in practice "freedom of religion" turns out to be "freedom of Christianity, everybody else can go suck it." The right has its knickers in a twist about religious liberty while simultaneously crushing all other faiths.

I have a suggestion: why not have a government that hews to no faith? This project of the American right to adopt a Christianist theocracy is not a good idea.