Basically, a test to see if someone only knows conformist ideas or if they're capable of seeing alternative perspectives?
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It's context, though. Again, science isn't something you 'believe' in, exactly, and you wouldn't normally phrase it that way; and anyone asking that is obviously putting the capitalization on, and is obviously an NPC.
Just like how you should do a double take if someone asked if, per your example, you believed in horses. The phrasing of the 'science' question, as well as the current cultural zeitgeist, makes it a good shit test.
Would you really answer "yes" if someone asked if you believed in science? Without any specification about scientific method or anything?
I would reply "like... the concept of it?" and then clarify, much like I just did, at the risk the person I'm talking to is a psycho-lefty or combat-NPC trying to check a shibboleth. The correct answer is neither yes nor no, but requesting further details, regardless of whether you're trying to check their own opinions in why they'd ask such a question in the first place, though.
Language matters. That's why the left perverts it so often.
Which is what I said. If someone answers "yes" they're an NPC, that's all I said.