[NJ_gent]

"The point is to stop research."

Precisely, because a very small but vocal group of people have somehow convinced a much larger group of people that science is out to kill their God. Those secure in their faith ought to welcome anything science has to offer, as it could never possibly do any such thing. Those involved in science would agree that science has no such aims, nor any such ability.

Science seeks the discovery of natural truth - nothing more, nothing less. It is as relentless as the innate human thirst for knowledge, and it will never stop. Those who fear science fear truth.

[Mylo]

"Those who fear science fear truth."

Nice. And as one "involved in Science" I would agree that Science does not have the ability or the aim to delve into that which cannot be reproducibly observed and measured.

There are as many believers among Scientists as among non-Scientists. Many Scientists share the philosophy of my tagline "Scientific discovery is also an occasion of worship".

[Mamzelle]

re: Science seeks the discovery of natural truth - nothing more, nothing less. It is as relentless as the innate human thirst for knowledge, and it will never stop. Those who fear science fear truth.)))

Well, you do have a saintly view of scientists. Sometimes it looks to me like a relentless thirst for Grant Money. Science can be a tough business, sometimes a corrupting one, and it'd be nice to think that it was a Monastery of Truth-Seeking...maybe on good days, it is.

We can make a Shaman of a scientist as easily as we did Jim Jones. They are limited by "original sin"---just like all of us.