Religion tends to make people more sure about things that they don't really know for sure. In my mind that has always struck me as an obstacle to being a good s

Religion tends to make people more sure about things that they don't really know for sure. In my mind that has always struck me as an obstacle to being a good scientist. Appreciating that there are unknowns is exactly what gets a lot of people into science, and the correct way to treat those unknowns in science is to say that you're not sure about something until you've run the experiment.