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Bullying. I haven't heard it expressed in this way, Hektor.
This intimidation/bullying attitude is not usually expressed by the scientists that I interact with regularly. Rather those who "believe in science" seem to perpetuate this bullying mentality. Those who "believe in science" see it as more of an absolute than the scientists who research and work daily with these theories. True scientists know that any theory could be disproved or modified at any time - that their entire life's research could be thrown out as useless drivel. The scientists that I know are generally humble people who are motivated to study a distinct system. They are not the ones who write policy. They are not interested in wasting their time with such things - they just want to explain what they see, to test their hypotheses and see if the trend they have observed is consistent. These scientists that I know seek to assign order to the world that many view as chaotic. They wish to understand things in measureable terms - to understand a system well enough to predict how that system might change in the future.
It is a shame that science is placed in such a negative light by religion.
It is a shame that religion feels so threatened by science.
Especially since many of us scientists find a place for religion in our lives.
As a scientist who is constantly being told by her religious peers that she should disagree with things that she sees as fundamental realities - I contest that the anti-evolution religious are the true bullies.
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