The Religion of Science

Iv'e recently been engaged in debates in regards to evolution vs creation vs intelligent design. One very astute and pestering passer-by had disregarded a section of information I shared due to the reference being Discovery Institute. The claim was backed up by a highly referenced Wiki that was billing Discovery Institute as untrustworthy for many reasons. Upon placing just the slightest pressure on the arguments made I was able to find many issues with the claims and ideas presented in the wiki and by the references. This led me to a little more research on the topic of the scientific consensus of evolution. I quickly became startled at the amount of zealotry apparent in all aspects of evolution acceptance. This has been the driving force for putting this post together.

I'll use this wiki and some of it's references, as well as some external poll results to show how the topic of evolution has itself become religious and almost deified in our culture and media.

The first portion of the wiki that caught my attention was the bold and presumptuous statement following:
"The theory of evolution is accepted by overwhelming scientific consensus.^[3] Intelligent design has been rejected, both by the vast majority of scientists and by court findings, as being a religious view and not science."

The reference points to a small obscure reference  that says "While 99.9% of scientists accept evolution". This is not a fact from any data I see. If it was a fact when the article was published (2006) then this would indicate science is falling away from evolution. A 2009 poll from Pew gave much lower numbers.

I would also like to point out that it's impossible to get the view from all scientists. This poll was a cross section more than likely which is not a scientific approach that can hold water. Yet these numbers are used as 'proof' of evolution.

This is a dangerous and contradictory path and stance. Any time the media comes out saying x% of scientists or experts agree on something it's likely for an agenda. If there is even 1 dissenting voice in science, the data MUST be reviewed in order to adhere to the whole foundation of science.

In the US we are supposed to empower the minority, no matter how small. We do the exact opposite in this case though. The scientists that oppose evolution are not heard from on media outlets, and when someone challenges the status quo of evolution there is a HUGE uproar.

This is,  in my opinion, a direct cause of our societies denial of God. Acknowledgment for the data that presents an impossibility for evolution is thrown out as religion for the most part. This isn't science and doesn't yield anything except ignorance.

Richard Dawkins, one of the most outspoken atheists has been recorded saying

"Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness."

Yet we see the scientific community holding onto their faith of the big bang and evolution as fact despite any contradictory findings. The finely tuned universe is a statistical impossibility unless there are an infinite amount of universes. This of course can not be tested, seen, verified, or peer reviewed. Yet these views are being held firm. This is the same argument used against Biblical Creationists. "It can't be seen, tested, or verified by science so don't even take heed in it." This statement applies to Genesis as much as the Big Bang and the necessity of infinite universes.

So 8% of scientists still think there is a creator according to the poll above. This is a HUGE amount of very smart men and women who follow the data. So many agnostic or atheist scientist have been forced to come to this conclusion based upon the data, yet once they do they are disregarded from most  all main stream publications.

Pointing to a group of experts that agree on ideas is not proof of anything. If that could be used as proof then I'll prove to you that God created the heavens and earth.

This position of the public, media, and scientific community is dangerous. Let's take the religion out of science unless the data shows overwhelmingly that we can not. 8% of tens of thousands of experts that analyze data is enough for me. Denying God is one thing science, but denying data is self defeating.

I could continue to break the above article down and show more assumption and religion, but I won't. The above is enough to make the point.  The Discovery Institute is a PR campaign, I'll attest to that. However it pales in the comparison to the PR campaign run for evolution. The wiki above did not do anything but solidify my beliefs further and then slap science in the face. Where are all the 'open-minds' that atheists have?