Page 2: Belief systems, science, and religion

Belief systems are culturally specific. Belief systems define our ability to interpret and perceive the surrounding world. Belief systems may delimit the ability to perceive/interpret/accept anything outside that belief system. Belief systems are social as much as cultural. Nobody is immune to the influence of their sociocultural belief system.

Science is a Belief System inasmuch as it defines the way we may or may not believe things. The evidence-based nature of science is not unique, though the demands of measurability and perceptual reproducibility may define the limits of science as a belief system. The ability for something to become accepted science demands it can withstand filtration through systems of magazines/journals, academia, and other barriers skewing patriarchal. Science must be funded and this is also subject to the limit of capitalism.

Science is good, necessary, and limited. It is as socioculturally malleable as religions. It can tell the truth or lies, like religion. Scientific and religious Truth will agree with each other.