Quote Originally Posted by Polymirize
Except of course, when it comes to the rather painful task of self-evalutation.

As a scientist, have you ever read any of the works of Kuhn?
"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion." —Carl Sagan

To say that science is worse than religion at self-evaluation is just flat out wrong. Do you know the difference between faith and evidence? Good scientists look at the evidence and draw conclusions from that. Faith means you just believe because you believe because you believe.