Hi Buzz, just thought I'd pile on to this reply.
When you do science it's like taking a driving test. You have a way of passing the test and that is by doing all of the maneovers correctly: if you do you can call yourself a legal driver.
The same is true with doing science. You have to do it the right way or you are doing it wrong.
You may not agree that the scienctific method is the best way to understand the universe but the scientific method is like the 'passing the driving test method'.
One can't fail a driving test and then seek to redefine the rules of the test so that you can pass.
That's cheating.