The greatest irony I find in all this is just how close those who hold scientific beliefs are to those that hold religious ones. Now, I will say in full disclosure, that yes, I am a Christian. That being said, I don't think all science is evil or anything. There are some theories I don't agree with(such as macroevolution), but I think plenty of other areas of the topic are fine.
Anyway, essentially, for athiests(just the general term I'm using here, though not necessarily all who hold deep scientific beliefs should be classified as such), science is their God. One of the main, common complaints for the Bible is the fact that it was just written by a bunch of guys 2,000 years ago, therefore it's impossible to consider it as anything other than a storybook. Yet, here's the thing: the same fallible species that wrote the Bible(along with other texts), is the same species that made all of these scientific theories. It's fallible man, doing fallible tests, and creating fallible evidence. It requires just as much faith to believe that they are correct as it does to believe the Bible or anything else is correct.
This is further supported by the zealous devotion to such topics as this. The fact that when a scientific person/atheists/whatever hears something that goes against science, their first instinct is to bristle up just as a religious person would to something that goes against their beliefs. The idea that things like the belief in Creationism needs to be weeded out to further advance the species is no different than how many accuse those who try to convert others to their religions as acting. Though the atheist may use different words, different notions, they still are generally in the same ball park.
So, essentially, what I'm getting at is that there is no room for elitism and a condescending tone here, on either side of the fence. There's far more similarities between our ideas and beliefs than perhaps we would like to think, and we need to learn how to have open dialogues without trying to tear down the other side. Instead, we should try to better understand each other, even if neither side will budge from their views.
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