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Personally, I find the idea of simultaneous support for both religion and science wholly incompatible. Here's my thought process:
- Scientists support the [url=http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/overview_scientific_method2.gif]scientific method[/url].
- Faith-based religion conflicts with the scientific method, as religion skips/ignores steps in the scientific method.
- One cannot support the scientific method while simultaneously supporting faith-based religion.
One cannot truly support both science and religion; you're compromising your support in one or the other.
Thoughts? Explain your position.
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To be fair, you don't need to use the scientific method in every part of your life even if you're a scientist. That's exactly why scientists use the scientific method and document every bit of their work, so that it doesn't get clouded by things like personal beliefs. For example, my dad's archaeology company had an employee who was a young Earth creationist. It didn't matter because the work she did had nothing to do with her personal beliefs.