So, I'm not really sure I got my point across last time. Maybe this will help. Basically, what I'm trying to say is that 'science' is a good thing, but is just as susceptible to corruption as anything else in this world. It is often abused, mistreated, corrupted and falsified by people who ought to know better, i.e., the scientists themselves. It is also horribly abused by pastors and popular media, politicians and professors, but while I'd like to forgive them because they're mostly just ignorant, I can't do so without also holding them accountable for the pathetic mess they're making out of it, science, that is. I mean, everyone has their own agenda, which exists not because of scientific evidence, but mostly human desire (a.k.a. 'lust'), and yet they use science as a tool to justify it. And if the science is bad, wrong, incorrect or just plain contradicts what they have to say, they just say it louder and louder until someone listens, preferably a 'bitter and unsuccessful' scientist.
So, to review, science in and of itself is GOOD. (If it weren't for science, there are a thousand reasons you wouldn't be reading this!) People who twist it around to justify a personal or political agenda are BAD.
Science is the pursuit of facts, not truth, but truth is what people live by. That's why I get frustrated watching/listening/reading bilge produced by guys like Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris, who are so concerned about their version of the truth that they will co-opt and undermine the scientific process until it produces the facts they desire. Then they sell those facts to the world wholesale. Consumer science: science redesigned to meet the needs of the materialist philosophers waging war on ultimate truth.
