Scientists and the government do willingly lie though? And a proper science education will have you go through the math and do experiments yourself so you don't need to believe it (well, you need to believe you are not being tricked by a Cartesian demon). If you're not doing that, then yeah all you have to go on is credibility of the people doing science, and several fields have replication crises, so it makes sense to not blindly believe them.

It does not. At least not in such absolute terms.

Some science is wrong, but not science in itself.

And mate, you don't need to go into religion or anything to find out that governments willingly lie to you. Also scientists, plenty of times, willingly or not.

> That doesn’t set you up to get far and do well in the world as it is.

There are loads of highly successful and relevant Christian people in every area, including science, right now and throughout history.