Science is testing with the scientific method; a system where you attempt at alltimes with every test you conduct to prove your theory wrong.It is an affront only to those who accept only the possibilities they understand and refuse to open their minds to any other possibilities.
Science never does that. Science never presumes anything as absolute but that the possibility of other possibilities is always present.
Religion is a belief system where your faith is believed to always be correct.
Do you practice your religion like science? At all times testing your faith that is always false?
That is what science always does. Religion never does that. Science never assumes anything. Science tests and provides proof. Religion is a belief system. In religion you have many different scenarios. Who is right, the Jew, Christian, Hindu or Muslim?
Perhaps though your post suggests you really don't know too much about what you're talking about here.
What difference does it make whether the Jew, Christian, Hindu, Muslim or any other religious group is right in this context? Do you have to reconcile differences of scientific opinion of which there are many before you can accept science as a reasoned discipline?
My whole point from the beginning of this discussion is that ID is not science in the sense that we usually define science.
And ID is not religion in the sense that we usually define religion at least so far as iit being necessary to include spiritual beings or dieties.
The honest and true scientists closes his mind to no possibilities and fully accepts that what he now knows may be perceived differently when new information or evidence is presented. The only way scientists can get ever closer to the truth is with open minds receptive to any new information that is yet to come.
And the same is true of ID which also presumes that there is far more to know than what is known and the only way to get closer to the truth is by an open mind receptive to any new information that is yet to come.
Therefore, for all we know there will be a merging of science and ID sometime in the future, but it is not now merged. But no scientist worth his credentials as a scientist would dismiss ID as an impossibility any more than any ID-er of reasoned intelligence would dismiss science out of hand just because it doesn't fit with some religious doctrine.
Perhaps none of us knows what they are talking about here, you included.
With an open mind, how does a scientist test a belief? Your assumption is prefaced with your opinion that all science is closed minded. However, you provide no supporting facts with that baseless conclusion.
Scientists test theories, not beliefs. ID is a belief only.
You can never disprove my religous beliefs. Ever. No science can ever disprove my religous beliefs. No science can ever prove my religous beliefs either.
Science proves and disproves theories on the hour. That is the difference.