Atheistic Dogma- Scientific Fundamentalism

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Because they're fucking humans. I don't know where you got this theistic concept of "these people are somehow the ones that are supposed to have the knowledge".

Well, inclusion in the NAS seems to imply their expertise and level of respect to be given to their opinion.

Neil Degrasse Tyson has responded to a question similar to mine that the reason is because they are still continuously running up against revelations of experiments that cannot be explained with our current understandings of the laws of science.

There, he argues, is where "goddidit" ends up becoming the fall back answer, even for the most respected of minds.

Being a member of the NAS does not mean you've examined the philosophical or theological ideas of a personal God. It means that you've demonstrated great proficiency and made contribtuions in a certain area of science. It doesn't imply their expertise on any topic other than..you know..the topic that their expertise involves. Are most of them atheist/non-religious? Yes. Does that mean they suddenly attain some level of expertise on religious matters because they're a superb particle physicist? No. Most of them have simply concluded that the idea of a personal God isn't compatible with their investigations into reality, and some others haven't reached that same conclusion. As Simon said above, it probably results from a little compartmentalization because they're humans just like the rest of us and aren't infallible.

I have no idea what you're trying to say about NDT, but if I'm thinking about the same lecture, his point was how strange it is that the NAS isn't 100% atheist, he wasn't giving credence or validity to the "god did it" excuse.

And for fuck's sake stop calling experimental data "revelations".