As a scientist I have read and encountered many others of many different denominations. Those that I clash the most with are the Atheists.
Those that I have met in real life (and online) may not be representative but they do seem to believe that science is able to provide "proof" and "truth" about the world in a way that religion cannot. The irony escapes them completely.
I define science as the act of interpreting observations about the natural world in the context of other observations about the natural world ... but I am not trying to convince anybody ... and I would prefer it if others did not try and convince me.
I've met artists who say that through art human beings are observing and interpreting the world, the human mind included, they don't always use words to convey these interpretations however. Anyone who says that only science can provide the sole interpretation of the true world is dangerous ... or probably selling something. They are dangerous because like all fundamentalists once you believe that your way is the only way that all other ways become either targets for destruction or objects of ridicule.
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