Religion is poison, OP ED.

[Esquilax]

It ought to be but it has come under the influence of a belief system that has certain dogmas which aren't based on anything we necessarily know or have evidence for.

You keep saying this, but you've yet to respond to the contention I had with it the first time you made this claim: namely, that the demonstrable benefits of science- the discoveries, the technology, the cures and so forth- are predicated on the information that forms their basis being true, and conforming to reality. Those discoveries are also the way scientists make their name, make themselves rich, and seal themselves into the annals of history.

Simply put, there is no reason that any scientist would deny the reality of their experiments and results in favor of a dogma: why in the hell would a professional scientist avoid the kind of discoveries that would turn them into Nobel prize winning millionaires whose names are known around the world? What would be the purpose of forgoing those? Can you give me a single motivating factor for why the scientific community would form dogmas in the first place, let alone scuttle their careers by holding onto them, if the evidence you see is so blindingly obvious and pertaining to such a large question?

Just pointing and yelling "Conspiracy!" when people disagree with you... that's not an argument, Sword. That puts you in the tin foil hat category.