The fact is that science is what scientists do, and to be a scientist one must be objective, smart, trained in a scientific discipline, and not rely on supernatural or magical concepts. Science has produced a lot and made our world, while most people go through life ignorant and even disparaging it.
The requirement that scientific ideas must be testable to be scientific is often used, I think wrongly. Obviously tests and the ability to make predictions improve the likelihood that an idea will be incorporated into the body of scientific theory, but testability is not by itself grounds for rejection, maybe just grounds for putting it on the shelf to wait until tests become available.
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