Vigilant good. Strident bad.

The whole social contrast between re ligion and sci ence is asymmetric.

I know of no scientific community that goes out of their way to assault, condemn or jihad against religious sects.

I can site propaganda or violence against apostates, atheists, heretics and infidels by people of faith.

That is the slippery slope I am vigilant about.

Without a doubt it is getting better. well a bit better.

http://www.stockgumshoe.com/2016/06/yet-more-miracle-cures-from-on-high/

religion still has their snake oil salesmen.

Believe it or not there are some scientists who partake in a drop of the oil of the snake.

To make holy water you boil the hell out of it and say some incantations by an employee of god.

To ponder a glass of water to the scientific minded is to me much more fascinating. The H in the H2O is 13.7 billion years old while the age of the oxygen atom varies greatly and is much younger.
That is some sell by date !

As for logic it is the height of scientific folly to anthropomorphize certain relationships in the cosmos. By nature of our mind processes it is too easy to propose similarities to ourselves. But this might a case as Amos said when we could throw the baby out with the bathwater.