And which fairy tales do you choose? Science? Do you honestly believe that everything that you currently believe is true? Give it a couple hundred years' time and it's likely that much of what science now proclaims as fact will be proven to be a fantasy. (No, I'm not referring to evolution. I have no problem with the theory and I believe it is a sound working model, even if it does have flaws.)
You have just described the very essence and inherent core of science and the scientific method. The thing about science is that to adhere to the scientific method your theory must be able to be proveable or
disproveable. It is the nature of science that we use the best information we have to explain why something is what it is or does what it does. This is why there is a huge difference between what is considered scientific fact and everything else: scientific theory. Some things truly are scientific facts; they have been proven under the guidelines of the scientific method and these facts
have persisted after hundreds of years. Other things, like Einstein's theory of relativity, have not yet been proven or disproved, and of course there's "bad science" -- people who claim fact without appropriately testing their hypotheses. But it is science's constant re-evaluation of itself that makes it easy to believe in -- it is a culture that is constantly trying to prove itself wrong, through the introduction of new ideas, rather than proving itself right by reinforcing old ideas. The reverse of this is religion.
This comment was edited on Sep 1, 16:23.