There is certain Dogma in science. There is also a requirement for some degree of faith.

But both are a result of too many enthusiastic scientists, trying to make mark by being the first to point something out.

You need to have a certain degree of faith in the process, because you cannot test every thing yourself. If you bring up something outside of accepted theories, you are likely to be met with dogma because of the amount of work that went into establishing the theories in the firsty place.

I can't think of a field where this is more true than Evolutionary Biology. Given the amount of time and effort that has gone into this debate, I cannot imagine that any theory of biblical creation has not been analyzed thoroughly to the full extent that it can be. Scientists had looked at this pretty thoroughly by the time of Darwin's death. In the intervening years pretty much every piece of significant evidence has been looked at through that lens. The evidence is just not there.


Carl Sagan said it very well. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.