No, I'm referring to their rock-like faith in the scientific status quo they take for granted. I am referring to the absolutely rigid adherence that so many science's followers give to the scientific view they take for granted at any one moment in history...as if it were gospel and the final word on the matter. It almost never is. If you study the history of science, you will see that the status quo has been overturned again and again by new scientific discoveries...yet at any moment along the chain most of the followers of the status quo insisted that anyone who questioned it was a raving loony....or a fool...or a charlatan.

Their insistence is similar to the blind faith in basic assumptions that is so often demonstrated by religious people.

They will not admit that they don't know for sure. Such an admission is more than they can handle, it seems.

As for "non-belief" in this or that...well there are times when it seems justifiable to me not to believe, and there are other times when it seems foolish or close-minded....but there are simply millions of different possibilities when it comes to that. It depends what the subject is.

There is a lot of stuff none of us believe in the present day. I doubt that anyone here believes the Earth is flat. Fine. There is other stuff we may differ on, for a variety of reasons. In regards to that other stuff...an open mind is more reasonable than a closed one. But an open mind has to admit that it doesn't know for sure.

That's where people won't bend. They inSIST that they know. Well, if they've had direct experience of something...then they know. If not, they don't, and they had best admit that they don't.