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just pointing out that scientist are people and they have their dogmas and boogeymen, too.

Quite true, but ethical scientists strive to eliminate bias. Most clergy I have encountered are completely closed to notions or concepts other than what they learned in seminary.

"Quite true, but ethical scientists strive to eliminate bias. Most clergy I have encountered are completely closed to notions or concepts other than what they learned in seminary."

All true, and I pretty much agree with you.

Just picking on the hyperbole. There are bad scientists.

And scientists should not be afraid of legitimate --- LEGITIMATE --- confrontation and discussion.

Note the word "Legitimate" Which does not include routinely debunked dishonest B.S. about the 2nd law of themodynamics so often heard --- (To which I respond --- see that big light in the sky? Feel the heat?)

And please note, I am a fundamentalist Christian --- converted from Jew, no less. So serious about the Bible I knowingly pissed away pretty much my whole family on conversion, and did it nonetheless.

I believe every word in the Bible. Literally.

I am also a petroleum engineer. And a geologist. I find coral reefs. In New Mexico. 15,000 feet down.

The problem is not Genesis. It is the pre-conceived agenda people read into the Bible to reach YEC and other stuff that is simply NOT IN THE BIBLE.

Most clergy I have encountered are completely closed to notions or concepts other than what they learned in seminary.

This is an all too convenient stereotype which may well be true in your particular case, but is not necessarily reflective of reality. I'm clergy and I've learned more since I graduated with Seminary and Graduate School than I did while I was in school. I know a LOT of clergy from MANY denominations all over the country, and while SOME reflect the stereotype you articulate, I can't say that such is true of "most" and certainly not all.