I think perhaps you misunderstood where I was going with my post as I am not a religious person and do not believe in the bible. I apologize as I am not very good at trying to convey my thoughts. However I think your reply demonstrated my point. You seem to hold faith in scientific knowledge, knowledge I feel is probably mostly wrong while you seem to hold peoples faith in religion in a negative or obsolete manner.
Consider this, if you were to ask a caterpillar its opinion on the universe and its surrounding environment it could probably only provide a very elementary view. Its perceived world is so tiny in comparison to our own that it would probably have a much different opinion of things. We would probably think many of its (facts) beliefs as wrong because we would know better, we are able to see well beyond its limited self. Now the smartest person to be recorded was believed to have and IQ roughly in the mid to upper 200's. Now imagine a being that had intelligence a thousands of times higher then the smartest of humans. They would probably view us much like we do the caterpillar, limited and wrong. Perhaps even they would be wrong about a lot of things, perhaps true fact is impossible to grasp by anything out their from sheer lack of ability. Who could say?
My whole point is I do not hold faith in science any more then religious or spiritual views because we are to dumb to have it right. We just have to go with the best that we can come up with and hope we are closer to being right then we are wrong.
I get what you're saying... and I'm sorry, but you are wrong, yet entitled to your opinion. Allow me to explain, first off...
Caterpillars, aside from having a nerve cluster for a brain, have no choice but to perceive the world as it arrives to it's senses. Humans can build devices to detect things far beyond our senses.
Now then, science is most often wrong... which is why science works. See, you can't really "prove" anything is something... but you can prove something isn't something. You can prove it false. When you rule out everything it isn't what you are left with is what is right. The process is observation, hypothesis, test, observe, refine the hypothesis, test, observe, etc. It's how we have come to know for certain the various physical laws we know.
For example, science knows the speed of light quite precisely. Religion, has said that asking such deep and probing questions is trespassing on God's turf, end of discussion. We know that time slows as velocity increases and gravity decreases, we've measured it. How do we know we aren't wrong, because it's been tested again, and again, and again, and so on. Most scientific disciplines are at least a few centuries old now, and still we are testing them to attempt to prove them wrong. When the bible, or any other religion is tested, it almost always fails... but does NOT refine it's hypothesis and continues in ignorant faith.
Science does not condone ignorance of any kind. It takes no faith to believe that light travels at 300,000 km/s... we know for a fact it does, not just here, but everywhere. It takes no faith to believe in the periodic table, or that an object in motion will remain in motion and an object at rest will remain at rest. No faith is required... these laws exist whether we, or the caterpillar is there to observe them or not.
Observation is not a matter of faith, it's a matter of fact. Religions thrive on non-observation, on the absence of a physical deity, on faith.
Tell me, what do you base your "belief" that most science is wrong? Remember, until it has gone from hypothesis to theory and from theory to law, it isn't considered right (correct).
I understand and appreciate your super intelligent being/caterpillar analogy... however, high IQs have diminishing returns. The gap between the intelligence of a caterpillar and a human of average intelligence is, say, a factor of a million. Using that scale, the gap between a genius and an average person is a factor of 2 that is, they are half again as intelligent. Yet both are capable of understanding the physics of light, momentum, the chemistry of atoms and molecules, etc.
The super intelligent being is going to know the same speed of light, it will know the same E=MC[SUP]2[/SUP], etc... but, it may know the answers to some questions we havent figured out yet, but it's very unlikely to overturn what we already know of the physical macro universe.