Death Threats After Supporting Evolution

[Ryantology]

Science relies on certain assumptions (or axioms). Articles of faith are essentially assumptions.

And, yet, they could not be more different in how they are extrapolated into descriptions of what is all around us.

It is the duty of the scientist to attack his own assumptions relentlessly, until the point where a theory is either destroyed or accepted by consensus (and never is this acceptance supposed to be permanent or unconditional). It is the duty of the religious to accept an assumption of faith as truth, without qualification, to perhaps challenge some of the details but never the actual assumptions themselves.

As far as I am aware, there are no biologists who insist that The Origin of Species is absolute, unalterable truth and all descendants and variations of Darwin's initial proposition of evolution theory are heresies, their proponents enemies.