McGrath: "Scientists should indeed recognise that their theories are provisional, rather than "true" in an absolute sense."
Shaw: Good scientists do. But even good scientists are human beings, which is their finest attribute.
Offer: and even priests are human beings. Think of that!

McGrath: "But if course that doesn't stop them holding on to them even when evidence seems to disprove them, and from trying to find ways to cast doubt on that evidence."
Shaw: Which is why science insists on peer review of evidence. As I say, you have a fair bit to learn about what good science gets up to.
Offer: Gee, Steve, theologians do peer review, too!

McGrath: "But the way you talk about this, Scientists appear to be seen as a kind of dedicated priesthood. And that's as shaky a version of scientists as it is of actual priests. By which I mean, most of the time it's probably not too far away from the truth, but by no means always, and all too often, it's nowhere near."
Offer: I think that both scientists and priests/theologians have far more self-awareness that we give them credit for having. Both are far more self-questioning than their disciples are.

-Joe-