pad, you're just getting silly now. your own "blind devotion" to the infallibility of the scientific method seems to have reached its fever pitch. you want "proof" of science's fallibility? just what proof do you desire? scientific proof? can't you see the bizarre nature of your request? look to our present infatuation with agw (or whatever they're calling it these days) for an example of the flaws in our "science". the truth may very well be staring us in the face, but it is our interpretations of the evidence that is the flaw. repeatability demands interpretation and consensus can only give us the bias of the majority. it isn't that the method fails to give us facts, but how we choose to see these facts and how we act on them that is the fallibility in the system. as hard as you may try, you simply can't divorce the human element from the method which he created.
do you really think we can simply excise one set of feelings from all of humanity? religion exists within the consciousness of man and it plays on his emotions, just as our notions of love do. we have faith in these things, we experience them along with millions of other people, despite there being no basis for their existence.