Then science was relegated to General/Chat and religion took over the News/Activism Forum.
In the process, most of the scientists were banned or gave up in disgust.
Result? Threads like this where science is denigrated as a belief system, while belief in biblical literalism is claimed to be based on science and scientifically proved.
George Orwell did not live in vain.
Paging Nehemiah Scudder. Pick up the white courtesy telephone please.
Then they're astonished to see their candidate can't get 10% of the vote in a primary.
Yes, and there are also forces at work that want Chriatianity shunned to behind closed doors only in private, and only on Sundays.
Thankfully enough believers got sick of that also!
The world doesn’t belong specifically to science, let alone is set by the rules the “scientists” prefer.
Frankly, I think all of the various entities that define our realities should have equal time. If scientists gave up it may be more likely that they just didn’t have as good a game!