If you are continuing to read, congratulations! It means you passed the first two tests. You may take a breath and enjoy a moment with the modest fact of being ‘curious’ and ‘skeptic’. After you have done so, it is highly recommended you continue to read more. It has something to do with more than an introduction and biographical sentences.

Of course you were right! Science and religion. What do we have to say about that? Maybe it is not ‘a big deal’, but it is a fact that it has got something more than intro and biographies… Either way, we do not care. After all, ‘I think’ is a very weak word for us nowadays. Let’s introduce you to a new concept about opinions, beliefs and knowledge. Imagine an infinitely tall pyramid (supposing you understand well the underlined keywords in the sentence). We have ‘opinions’ at the very bottom, ‘Beliefs’ somewhere in the middle, and ‘Knowledge’ at the very top. Exactly like you, we consider opinions to be the very last reliable statements. You have many examples in everyday life, and never forget that we humans are always naturally born as individuals.

Beliefs are somehow considered by us more reliable than opinions. Why? For the simple fact that they are individual opinions (roughly speaking) with more than one supporter. But be very careful with the words ‘I know that…’ when you are around us. You may find yourself under a whole lot of critical questions that usually have a very big probability to mute you. Therefore, knowledge is at the top, and it is the most reliable than any opinion or a statement of belief. We hope you did not guess now what we consider about science and religion, when you know religion is pure belief and you never hear the words ‘I think’ or ‘I believe’ in science.

Take now a glass of water and a stick. The stick is straight. Place the stick inside that glass of water. What is your comment about the appearance? One thing it is obvious, you agree too. The stick appears to bend. If you never saw a stick before, and for the first time you see it to be ‘bend’ in water, would you use the words ‘I believe’ or ‘I know that the stick is always bend.’? How do you know?!