Which Is A Bigger Threat To Humanity? Science Or Religion?

[Torillian]

o_O.Q said:

Torillian said:

and what I'm looking for is citations. Actual articles where someone in the field says something to the tune of "though there is no current experimental evidence for the actual physical existence of a singularity we believe that such evidence is only waiting to be discovered" or some such nonsense. Otherwise you don't have faith but scientists attempting to apply a mathematical model to the real world, a practice that is perfectly normal and rational. 

probably the most famous physicist alive in our era stephen hawking

http://www.hawking.org.uk/the-beginning-of-time.html

"However, the expansion of the universe, is like the time reverse of the collapse of a star. I therefore want to show you, that observational evidence indicates the universe contains sufficient matter, that it is like the time reverse of a black hole, and so contains a singularity."

 

i can get more if you want

So again, he's applying the current evidence and mathematical models to state that he thinks there was a singularity. I can't agree that this is having faith in something. If I give you my best guess as to a certain enzyme's mechanisms even though we don't yet have enough data for it to be conclusive am I giving you a hypothesis or do I have faith in my explanation?