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Originally Posted by stremba70
1. I’d like to see your source for this. You may be right, but your assertion does not make it true.
2. If true, so what? Who said science must necessarily conflict with religion? Science is non-religious in its methodology. That does not mean that science excludes the possibility of a deity. It does exclude the possibility of the literal truth of some of the stories told by religions (the wafer and wine really are Jesus, a worldwide flood, a less than 10000 year old earth, etc), but science is limited to the study of observable, natural phenomena.
3. Why would a majority of scientists believing in a religion mean that they are right? Science itself has shown over the years that argument ad popularum is not a particularly compelling one. The minority, or even a single individual is often correct. Do scientists know more than anyone else about things like religion that are outside their realm of expertise? If not, why should the beliefs of scientists regarding religion lend any particular credence to religious belief?
Institute of Physics diversity survey. This is ofc unsurprising, pure atheism is rare among scientists. Our friend here is in fact not ostensibly a pure atheist, difficult to know what he rails against - bible literalism? Well it is obvious sacred texts require more subtle reading than being given credit here.
'Observable natural phenomena' excludes many "acceptable" scientific (non)-theories as equally as those shunned by SCIENCE. There is as much if not greater weight of evidence for deluges as there is for say universal common ancestry, for instance.
I agree science is by definition demarcated clearly from religion. Perhaps Fella is arguing with a straw man - the bible literalist who presents his beliefs superceding anything science has to offer - no doubt such folk exist, but it seems a strange target on these pages. The goodFella attacks clumsily "religion" in its entirety, while suggesting science has better answers.
There are however, times when science does hit a brick wall and finds religion lurking. A personal favourite - "inertia is caused by the immutability of God". That's quite literally the "current" understanding.