“Let me get this straight, because, seriously, this is confusing. Firstly, your science is infantile and openly admits that it cannot understand 99.994% of the universe. Secondly, you trust this science to dictate truth and identity to you, and you discard what it finds untestable, even though it is so crude that, emboldened by its assistance, nearly nothing is testable?”

“Yes, that is correct. And we are proud of this because it ‘rescues us from religion and superstition’.”

“That is the single most absurdly astonishing thing I have ever heard from an intelligent species.”

— fragments of an anonymous conversation.