Cheering for Science

Scientists aren't mistaken for nimble thinkers.

Their thinking is belabored and they fall back upon an apparatus of rules, without which they are naked and become unable to reason sensibly about basic topics.

Intuition drives the curious mind to wonder "what is really going on here?", and from that "how will this develop and play out?"

All people with a good record predicting outcomes use rational relations as their basis, though not necessarily a formalized system that can be taught to people who don't sense causal patterns and their consequences.

Those who need a formal science possess little natural intuition, and their joy of science in the abstract is the relief of being given rules by which to reason, as their natural reason is limited and poorly constituted.

Religions with doctrinal texts capture their confession of inherent defects -- consider the instinct of those who needed rules to tell them not to murder, steal, or covet another man's oxen.