Overlap at peril

If the ‘believe’ we are talking about here is about opinions or faith, we are certainly entitled to believe the way we want to, provided we don’t foist such beliefs upon others without giving them a fair chance to accept it or reject it. But if we are talking about the rules and regulations of the work-a-day world, whether it is of court judgements, instruction manuals, traffic rules, fixing a motorcycle, writing scientific journals or ordinary correspondence - we need to be precise, there must be common meeting grounds. Both the worlds of belief and science are valid - but they overlap at peril.