Tree of life not real (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, February 20, 2014, 23:49 (3906 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Tony: There are a couple of different ways that scientist get twisted, and not all of them are intentional. Either:
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> A) Their entire life they have been told something is true, regardless of evidence, and so they believe it whole-heartedly, regardless of evidence. This in turn shapes their perspective on what they see and choose not to see. 
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> B) The are afraid of being ex-communicated from the academic world, loosing their careers that they have worked hard for. 
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> C) They have invested so much of their life and research into an idea that they are loathe to let it go. 
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> D) They have some sort of personal antagonistic bias against religion (i.e. Dawkins)
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> A & C to me are the least offensive of the four, and the two that I would consider not necessarily the fault of the individual, per se.-I have to be mainly an A. I was in medicine for 41 years, and I gave some to thought to our discussion before you presented this comment. To do the best for my patients I had to accept the basic tenets of the medical science of the pathophysiology of humans. Obviously I developed my own thoughts as I developed experience, that is, I started as A and then modified. This is the reason I approach physcial sciences as I do. I was trained to trust science and understood it could be modified. Science combined with the art of practicing it. -Your analysis of scientists is right on. A's don't learn to think. B's are the Darwinists, and I've actually been approached by a Darwin research doctoral candidate who was hiding his theism, and secretely wanted some references from me! C's are the stringy ones and they are trapped. And D's misuse science because of their agenda.