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Monique
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Moridin said:Again, individual scientists may be religious, but that does not in any way translates to science being a religion or even related to it.
Moridin, what we are arguing about is the difference between what science can be for the people and what people can be for the science.
Consider high school students that for the first time in their lives learn about all these exciting theories, to them science can be a religion: you start reading all about it and start philosophizing about the implications. You take facts of science and in a sense make it your own personal religion. I've been to popular science lectures of Brian Greene. What is presented is not science, but a popular version of it that mostly is highly philosophical.
People are for the science is that we must scrutinize every detail and test models and come up with evidence. A lecture in this area is one that you would expect at a conference.
So the first example does not say anything about the method of science, but what people do with the information that they are presented.