From the outside the scientific community can often look a little like that; but on the inside it things are very disengaged from ritual observance and faith.

From the outside the scientific community can often look a little like that; but on the inside it things are very disengaged from ritual observance and faith. Of course at certain times assumptions are made or theories wrongly rejected :) but, in the words of a great man, "it all comes right in the end".