Is There a Difference Between Trusting Scientists and Trusting Preachers?

[Chad32]

Unless you went out there and checked it yourself, you pretty much are taking a scientist's word for it. But the fact is, with the proper tools and education, you can go out there and check this stuff if you want to. Also if you find something that is different from what scientists believe, you can put it up for peer review and possibly become rich and famous. Do that with a religious text, and you're an apostate or heretic and generally shunned.

Actually the journal Nature has been hitting pretty hard on reproducibility lately.   How often it is attempted and when attempted how often it is unsuccessful may surprise you.

http://www.nature.com/news/reality-check...ty-1.19961
http://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scienti...ty-1.19970

That is a pretty big problem. Though obviously there are scientists who are working to solve this problem. With many people in religion, I doubt this would be considered a problem at all. Faith does not require reproducibility. otherwise it wouldn't the faith in the religious sense.