I was talking to my aunt about how religious people and organizations are slow to accept new ideas. Her defence was atheists can't accept new ideas based on the fact that they reject the old ideas of religion.
I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them
-- Galileo Galilei
-- Galileo Galilei