"Then I suppose "science" is no longer about what can be proved, but what the most number of people believe?" You're talking about it as an observer outside of

"Then I suppose "science" is no longer about what can be proved, but what the most number of people believe?" You're talking about it as an observer outside of science looking in. Interestingly though even within the framework of science this is true. Nothing in science can be proven. Experimental methods establish correlations not proof. If you get advanced you actually can technically establish causation to a statistical degree but this is not a proof. From the outside world looking in... The singular religious assumption you have to make about the world to believe in science is you have to believe in probability theory. You have to believe that the foundations of logic and the axioms of probability apply to the real world in order to believe in science. That is the most religious part of science.