FURRY

is being a black cat

Science is more like having a laser pointer. Through careful application and repetition, you could technically infer something about the location of the cat. But the cat moves around constantly and doesn't like you being there, and you only have limited time to do it, because the funding for your cat-finding project is about to run out.

I'd say instead of just "using a flashlight", you're "following a plan in which the first step is to get a flashlight." And you're fine if you're wrong and there wasn't a cat there in the first place

Pornography

is like doing sensual erotic things in the dark with someone else and a black cat brushes up against your leg

This reminds me of the quote by Oscar Wilde: "Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn’t there, and finding it."

As a metaphysics guy, my only question is “then what the fuck is yowling and scratching at my legs.”

A $45,000,000,000.00 flashlight that maybe saw a cat like thing. They'll need three more to be certain.

Science is your religion by the sound of it.