One often hears - for example, in debates on evolution - that while the 'religious view' is this, the 'scientific view' is that. There is no such thing as the scientific view - science has no views about anything.

I should teach the world that science is merely a disinterested attempt to synthesise observations of the world into comprehensible models. Science has no affiliation to any particular synthesis, or to any class of syntheses. As Albert Einstein himself demonstrated, any particular model of the universe - no matter how well respected - can be rejected overnight, if the model cannot accommodate new observations.