Is There a Difference Between Trusting Scientists and Trusting Preachers?

[madog]

Considering your repeated statements regarding evolutionary theory, the question seems more than a little bit disingenuous coming from you.

Then you fail to understand my position. A scientific fact will not conflict with religion because religion does not make scientific fact claims. If a person holds religious beliefs that are opposed to scientific fact, then they are really not true religious beliefs (perhaps a god-of-the-gaps belief) and should be discarded.

OK, are you saying you don't believe in a virgin birth? a man rising from the dead? to name just two religious beliefs ...

The reason I ask is by your statement a religious person that does believe in such things as above do not have "true religious beliefs" ...