“you are assuming people are doing this just “to show that all we see could have happened by chance (dumb luck).”
First I am not assuming that SOME of the people are doing this research to prove just what I said. I have read their research articles and SOME of them have stated as such. The rest of the researchers might have different reasons...reasons that I am not aware of.
“That is not at all why anyone does research.”
That is a pretty absolute statement...so NOBODY ever does research to try to prove that this world came about in a way different then...”In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
You may want to rethink that statement.
I know a lot of scientists. I did my graduate work in one of the “hard” science areas. I never met a single scientist who said, “I’m going to devote my life to proving that those stupid Christians are wrong and this whole thing came about by chance.”
People go into any scientific discipline because they are absolutely fascinated with it, not because they want to show everybody that Christians are wrong. Many scientists, especially the young ones who don’t have administrative responsibilities yet, will tell you gleefully that they’re thrilled some research facility is willing to pay them to spend all day in a lab, because they’re so enchanted with the work that they’d pay to do it. It’s love and delight, not some nasty contempt, that fuels most of them. Please don’t rely for your ideas about scientists on obnoxious types like Richard Dawkins.
You may be surprised to learn this, but many scientists have religious faith. Some even study science with delight in discovering how God created some particular aspect of the universe or the living world. I’ve talked to some physicists, including one in my own family, who admit that they want to know exactly how “in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Lately I have been corresponding to a mathematician who ecstatically describes mathematics as “the language of God” (not an original concept with him, by the way).
And if somebody wasn’t pursuing pure science with no direct, immediate application, we wouldn’t have developed the technology that allows you to write this to me on a computer and send it through the Internet to Free Republic, where I can disabuse you of your inaccurate ideas about scientific research.
A very blessed Easter to you.