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The branch of science called scientism sure exists to reject God and overturn Genesis.
Um, scientism is a type of philosophy, not a branch of science, WT.
While it would not be unusual for a scientist to hold to this philosophy, it certainly is not a requirement, as the 40% of scientists who believe in God are evidence of.
Science is conducted via methodological naturalism; what individual scientists believe personally about the supernatural doesn't enter into their work.
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Doesn't matter what you claim - opinions/hatreds about the God of Genesis does not cease at the laboratory door.
This comment reminds me of a story.
There was a fellow named Eric who worked in my department for about 4 months, until he was fired for poor performance.
I ran into him several months after that, and he was clearly kind of embarassed. He kept going on and on about how he just knew everyone he had worked with probably talked about how terrible a job he did, and what a loser he was.
I, of course, told him that this wansn't at all the case, which was absolutely true.
The truth was, we didn't think about him at all.
We forgot about him almost immediately.
My point in telling this story is to remind you that all of us tend to be self-absorbed and think that we are the cause of other people's behavior, when it is most often not the case at all.
WT, you seem to think that most scientists are sitting around their labs, hating God. The fact is, most scientists are way too busy writing grants, teaching lectures, preparing work for conferences, attending department faculty meetings, and supervising the grad students doing their research to have much time left over to plot ways to dethrone your Sovereign Lord.
Scientists may hate God, but they probably do it on the weekends.
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