In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?

Right now, any opinion anyone has about whether dogs can or cannot really tell when their owner is coming home by some unknown means... nobody knows. The weight of evi dence suggests they can.

The assumption that the laws of nature are eternal is a vestige of the Christian belief system that informed the early postulates of modern science in the seventeenth century. Perhaps the laws of nature have actually evolved along with nature itself, and perhaps they are still evolving. Or perhaps they are not laws at all, but more like habits.

I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.

I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

Science at its best is an open-minded method of inquiry, not a belief system.