Are the goals of scientists and religious scientists different?

Question

When experimenting and researching a theory or idea, are they trying to attain the same goal?

I guess I should have said Creation scientists for clarity.

My bad.

Answer 1

Yes, their goals are different. And it worries me deeply.

Scientists (and most people in general) seek the truth.

Religious scientists (if we can call them that) want to be right. It's called Sophism.

A sophist is a person who will use an exceptionnal knowledge, weakness of language, human comprehension limits, in order to make everyone agree that they are right. The goal isn't to lie, but to make what they want to be real, become real.

We all have sophists around us, but none have so much power than those with PhD's...

These people are a danger to the whole of humanity, for they will present lies as facts and society might be stuck with those lies for thousands of years...

Answer 2

The question is related with science & religion. Accordinging to the history of science(Physics) Scientists have stated that religions should be changed according to the progress of science and as a scientist I do agree with them. In my opinion, to creat a new ides or theory is to obtain a proposed aim of scientists of which he/she came to the conclusion after studying the books and performing experiments. While in religions and spirituality,one would carry this path by his/her forebirth work or luckly after the taking the guidence from spiritual and religions persons/ societies. The spiritual & religions paths are more difficult than to discover a new theory or idea by scientists. It is true that both these paths follow the same manner of concentration of mind. On the otherhand,a new invention of idea or theory may fail in due course but in spirituality etc paths one does not bother about failure and the failure processes is an indication of success for one's aim as he/she knows this fundamental fact. Accordingly, Scientists have only one religion that is to find new idea or new theory while religions & spirituality have more superior than Scientists new idea & new theory as such things are immortal fore ever. Thus,to use the word religious scientists in our sense of religion & spirituality have no meaning. I thank to the questioner to ask important question in my view.

Answer 3

A true scientist's religion should not matter. If you are talking Creation scientists then their only goal is political.

Answer 4

No. Many good scientists are religious. There's a difference between scientists and creation scientists.

Scientists want to find the truth. Creation scientists want to prove their theory.

Answer 5

If they are in fact both scientists, then truth is the goal of each. A scientist who betrays that no longer merits the name.

Answer 6

no. scientist are constantly trying find truth regardless of what it is and take into account all factors. religious scientists start with an end in mind and try to find data which supports that notion, while at the same time negating any evidence which might disprove it.

Answer 7

Of course they are. Religious scientists have an agenda that slows their progress, much in the same way religion has slowed progress of true science for centuries.

Religion is and always has been a crutch for the weak-minded to compensate for fear of death and injustice in the world. If someone of science needs this crutch they went into the wrong field.

Answer 8

The goal of any scientist is to determine the truth. Scientists who happen to be religious set aside their religious predisposition when they're doing their science.

Answer 9

Since most science is not concerned with God directly, but how the universe works, the goals of most are the same to discover how nature works in different conditions. The main differences occur when they try to theorize how the universe came to be and what purpose it has.

Answer 10

a scientist should be open to any plausible answer... whereas a "creation scientist" sets out to prove one line of thinking, that which can be rooted in the scriptures... so a "creation scientist" isn't very open minded, and is thus more susceptible to bias.