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Originally Posted by Yorick
Scientists are the priests of their religion. A religion complete with Dogma, heresies, schisms, worldviews and the like. They preach via the media, to their faithful flock who have complete faith their assumption-leaps about their discoveries are true. And who then respond with taxpayer-funding.
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But scientists only preach what evidence proves. Unless there is evidence, there isn't preaching. Their "flock" are free to study the evidence, and draw conclusions. Some of it is theory, but most of it is based on proven truth. Even the theories are logical extrapolations of these proven truths. Note that it not based on heresay, myth, faith or fable and/or conclusions that tolerate no questions. A scientist is a skeptic. He does not believe in an assumption and sets out to prove himself wrong. Until he finds hard evidence to support the assumption he continues to reject that which has not been proven.