"religion may simply be a subjective interpretation of certain phenomena that has not been adequately explained by science as yet."

And there lies the key. Science is merely that which is presently known through the scientific method. It is a process and NOT ( as held in the popular misconception ) any particular piece of knowledge. As a process it is ongoing. Any explanation therefore MUST exist in the present. Your need to refer to future state of knowledge as something which we must consider in the present tells me that you are not interested in the state of scientific knowledge as it IS. And further it tells me that whatever it may find in the future, when that future becomes, in turn, a present, you will still be refuting the validity of science as a method which allows rejection of any and all claims upon the credulity of the critical mind.

Sorry, I appreciate what it does and has really done too much to flee the present moment for a future in which any dream I might invent in my fantasies will be realized through magic science.

Its hardly knee-jerk to embrace a system which is built upon the strength that anything I hold dear in its present kewl findings may go the way of the various theories that lie upon the ash-heap of history.

I knew one thing about how anti-depressants worked 4 years ago. I know another thing now.

What is knee-jerk? Me keeping an open mind which allows the supportable claims to change? Or close-mindedly treating whatever I once understood to be true as if it must be true for all eternity because the evaluative standards must be deferred until a tomorrow which will never come ( but which will allow me to keep all my precious beliefs until they are "proven" in the "future?" )

When you treat the unfalsifiable claim as if it is empirical ( and therefore contingent ) you demonstrate that you have no interest in standards of evidence or proofs that threaten to reveal that science is not some dream-validation scheme.

If we have any aspirations beyond the present moment, then we must have dreams of what will come. But the only way to get there from here is to understand precisely where we are now, and how we got to this point. If we allow our aspirations to interfere with our understanding then we will just be pipe-dreaming. And if we hope to get to a better future, then we must allow some sort of course-correcting mechanism that can reject the path we plotted when it is revealed to be based on unwarranted belief.

Dante