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However I can't agree with you on science. I think the very opposite. Science actually goes about attempting to discover the reason that things happen. If it can't be unraveled just yet, then it is said to be unproven and not fact one way or the other. The very open-mindedness of science is what I find attractive over the close minded religious views.
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It's not science which is the problem...it's the people who do it which are the problem. I think if you look at the history of science, or even at what goes on within it, whilst many do have open minds, they only have open minds for things they can grasp or what they believe to be "reasonable". It's not as open or as objective as you may believe or think. People are not logical creatures. Intellectual paradigms, any paradigm for that matter, are hard nuts to crack and people who have invested much of their professional lives and reputations in creating and shaping the way things are done and thought find it very hard to let go. Scientists are no different. What we have to be careful of is that the latest, greatest and innovative of ideas doesn't become the new paradigm. Unfortunately, they have a habit of becoming the new "in" thing by default.