You may wonder what's so special about science anyway. Why should we give any privilege to what scientists say? Why should it be a scientific theory, physics, which provides the vocabulary for an account of the world, P, which strictly implies other truths? In reply I have another question. Does anyone know any better way than by science to discover both the fine structure of reality and the facts about what is remote from us in space and time?
Shifting the burden of proof like this could have been used by witch doctors or medieval churchmen, too. As a wise man once observed: do we believe it because it works, or does it work because we believe it?
(The rest of the passage is just as bad, going on to beg the question further: "They [the sciences] are increasingly successful because they are discovering more and more details about the world.")
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