As a person trained as a social scientist, I can tell you that true scientists are a curious lot.  They are also open to ideas and the questions that result from those ideas.  In a way, true scientists are like musicians…they are open to all forms of music and to all of the possibilities that musical notes can create. 

Therein lays my confusion about the so-called scientists who reject any mention of intelligent design in relation to the theory of evolution…spitting it out with disgust as “just religion in disguise”.  In effect, they have selected a theory as a truth (the theory of evolution) and have stopped asking questions.  That is not a true scientist.

A true scientist has a special role in society.  We are to look around us, develop hypotheses about what we see, and find ways to test those hypotheses.  A true scientist who is really interested in knowing more would be looking for ways to test hypotheses about a possible relationship between a causal factor in the process that has led to the development of life forms.  A true scientist would be curious enough to ask such questions.  A true scientist would never stop at the level of theory and would always be searching for a cause for whatever processes are being seen.

This is not hard…unless the so-called scientists are guided by ideology and not by science.  It seems very clear that the ideology guiding many scientists today is that which guides most on the far left.  The ideology of secularism. 

When scientists are guided by ideology, they are abusing the scientific process, its professions, and all of us who rely on their work to be objective.  Unfortunately, their actions leave thinking people suspicious of all scientists and the sciences that they represent.  That is a shame because we need all the information that we can get.  And we need to be able to trust that information.