Why? How does an interpretation of quantum mechanics qualify as a religion?

What would be a better word?

Wtf, he’s just making it worse. He seems to be trying to say “saying particle is confusing since an electron does not behave exactly like a speck of dust. It should have its own word like flard.”

Okay, but saying that an electron is a fundamental flard with negative charge doesn’t really help, does it?

When I close my eyes, I can no longer see the horse. Ergo the horse has stopped existing.

In reality I’d call it an elegant deduction - so many different phenomena point to there being more matter than we can see, so the straightforward conclusion is that there must be matter which interacts very weakly or not at all with electromagnetic forces.

The theory works out well, the solution is not hand waving and also rather elegant.