Yeah i just think they are scientist searching for truth, they wouldnt lie, Why lie? They dont care what the answer is, they just want to find it.
Christians OTOH already have their mind up and they will see what they want to, they are not pure like a true scientist.
I guess i do fundamentally view them as different.
Scientist: Mind aint made up aint nevah going to be made up always searching and thinking
Believer: mind is made up aint never going to not made up thats it end of story
I guess thats why if you asked me who would i believe first, A Baptist preacher or a PHD Physics and man it aint close, I would take that PHD over that lying preacher any day of the week.
Thats why i believe those bones are real is i hold scientist in the highest regard
This post right here sums it up.
Scientists that adhere to the scientific method are only seeking truth.
Religious people are only seeking support for their pre-concieved notions.
Notice that scientists use the term Theory.... That is a supported hypothesis. A hypothesis is merely a preliminary "best guess" explanation to which experimentation and observation can either support or disprove. The beauty is that the scientist alters his hypothesis as experimentation and observation provide new information and data. Once sufficient support has been amassed his hypothesis reaches the level of a theory. Such as the theory of gravity, the theory of evolution, the germ theory of disease. Any one of those would change TOMORROW if new information collected by anyone on planet earth was found valid, and in fact disproved any theory in existence. Based on the new info the scientific theory would have to be altered to a new one that worked with the new finding.
And when this happens all the scientists are INCREDIBLY EXCITED! They are NOT frustrated..... they are ECSTATIC in fact, because they are that much closer to the truth. Their goal...
Whenever the religious mind encounters contradictory data they dismiss it, or as has been the case throughout history, they DESTROY it, kill those who uncovered it and throw them in the hole they bury the evidence in.....
That or they destroy the person's credibility and send them away, or have them committed.
Lastly, in time all cover-ups eventually come to light, and people eventually tell them they're retarded and fos at which point the religious will say..... well that's what we were saying all along. After all, the bible is perfect. Especially when you have the ability to bend the meaning as you see fit, to have certain parts be taken literally, and then later have them be taken metaphorically.... how convenient.
Don't think so? Well then you might want to check out the story of Galileo and the heliocentric vs geocentric planetary model I've referenced more than once in this thread as a perfect example of the church using the bible in place of observable evidence as their explanation of the world around them, and being WRONG.... and ruining lives on the basis of "heresey" against the church.
In the good old days they just killed anyone who mentioned anything other than what they said was right. In the case of Galileo they destroyed his life, and confined him to his own home until he died.
Now you tell me how I'm supposed to believe the motives of the religious are just, and those of scientist seeking truth are corrupt?
The whole thought-process behind that sort of notion is just incredibly naive.
History has proven time and time again that religion works to secure it's OWN self-preservation, and science works to secure TRUTH.
This isn't some kind of current event.