Torillian on 15 October 2013
| AstroGamer said: Now that I think about it more, there is not exactly a huge difference between devout believers of creationism and evolution. They just both require faith. One requires faith in an ancient book and the other requires faith in that scientists are not bullshitting you. Simply because it is reported by a scientist or experts, many people will just believe. Heck, if a bunch of scientists decided to announce that ingesting mercury will give you stronger muscles with a bunch of seemingly realistic figures, there is not many who wouldn't believe them. I'm sure scientists fudge their numbers a little all the time. I'm not saying that you shouldn't believe in anything, I'm just saying do not take any source for an absolute truth |
I gotta tell ya as a scientist I take a little offense to the idea that scientists fudge their numbers a little all the time. Every instance I've ever heard of any fudging has always ended up in the ostricization of that professor and complete loss of funding and credibility. It's like being an artist and people find out you plagiarize. At that point you're below a new comer because anything you put out there won't be trusted. And trust is huge in the scientific community because everytime you put out an article you have to run it past other scientists who are often in the same field working on competing aspects. Any reason not to trust your data will be huge, might as well just quit at that point.
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