do religious people really believe?

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Religious people like to sometimes see themselves like they are doing some sort of scientific methodology, but they cannot due to the fact that dogma removes that possibility from their lives.

There are crazy scientists too.. Those with marginal theories that the majority regard as crazies.

So it is with theology. YEC is just as unsupportable. I still regard those people as siblings in Christ, even given their mistakes. People like Fred Phelps, I'd have a very hard time accepting.

You do theology a disservice trying to divorce it from its rational basis. Sure mistakes are made all the time. This is more proof of its freedom to fail. A good thing when talking about dogma.