Science rests upon several basic assumptions, namely:1) There are rules that reliably govern the universe, although we don't know where these rules came from. 2) These rules are the same everywhere in the universe and for all time, since the beginning of time and will never change, although how we know this is not clear. 3) That science is essential to man's survival and is of the utmost seriousness in nature. We know this because scientists say so...