Donno. The rules are different here. Not just the behavior rules, which don't trouble me as long as they're applied even-handedly, but the intellectual rules seem to be different here. I prefer the tradition of having science news threads in the news forum -- where they belong. I suspect that the religion mod would like that too.
You are correct. That is why I stay away from the Religion forum. Here, the Bible IS a valid source of facts (scientific and otherwise). It is a great place for theology and has some of the most erudite debates on FR.
But it is NOT a place for science.