[metmom]

Science precludes making assertions about things that cannot be studied by empirical methods.

Then it should stop making assertions that religion is just a bunch of mythology and folk tales and that the supernatural doesn't exist. Science demands a *naturalistic* approach, one that insists that there be no outside entity involved at all, when there's absolutely no basis of it.

By your own admission, then, scientists are way outside their field when even mentioning the supernatural. So then, they have no basis for censoring those who DO chose to believe it.

So the mockery and derision demonstrated towards those who believe in a creator is totally unwarranted because scientists cannot say that they are wrong, because it's supernatural and science has divorced itself from any connection with it.

Evos who claim creationists are wrong are speaking out of their own self-admitted ignorance. IOW, when they say creation is wrong, they don't know what they're talking about.

[js1138]

By your own admission, then, scientists are way outside their field when even mentioning the supernatural.

Not if the claims can be tested. Claims about the age of the earth and the possibility of a global flood are well within the purview of science. Any claim made by religion about the history of the physical world, or about the way the physical world works, is within the scope of science.