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Originally Posted by roachboy
seems to me that the naive faith in "science" generates an image of the "scientist" as littlegod. and the quaint professions of faith in "science" are basically no different from those quaint professions of faith in the big-god.
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...and from here we can determine the reasonable positions of atheist scientists with strong moral cores, or theologists who believe in and support theistic evolution.
The misleading path of this thread is one that focuses on the question of whether God really exists. This isn't the main concern of faith because it is a given; the religious do not doubt God's existence, so instead they focus on how to live under His laws, or, at least, they should. But what of the atheist scientist? Well, he or she should not be concerned with whether He exists either, because it doesn't matter. What matters is scientific truth. Both theologists and scientists are concerned with truth. Whether they seek truth of the same kind is what we should be focusing on here.