“Why Cosmology Is in Crisis”

Some militant atheists like to contrast the fruitful and self-corrective nature of science with what they see as the whimsical, completely arbitrary, and fact-free character of religion.  (“Why not believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster,” they jeer, “or in Russell’s teapot, or in leprechauns?”)  And, of course, such things as the genetics of fruit flies and pea plants, the chemical composition of oxygen, and the variant temperatures of the earth’s atmosphere can in fact be measured rather clearly and fairly clearly understood.

However, on the outer edges of science, at the furthest reaches of reality and existence, which is pretty much where both cosmology and theology dwell, the distinction between science and religion isn’t quite so obvious:

http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2016/01/11/why_cosmology_is_in_crisis_109504.html

Paul Tillich famously described religious faith as an example of “ultimate concern.”  And, at the ultimate limits of human concerns in both science and religion, objective public proof is hard to come by, and disagreements reign.

It’s the nature of the subject matter.