But in the larger sense, the religious cannot claim to be true scientists. As long as belief can trump scientific findings, religion and science can never be compatible.
this is based on his own unproven belief that science can disprove religion, don't you think? otherwise there is no reason for such a claim, as belief will never have the option to "trump scientific findings".
It has to do with proof in a different way. Religious people have their 'faith' as their "proof". Obviously this is 'not good enough', as it can not count as scientific evidence. Hence it's never compatible. It has nothing to do with assuming to be right or be able to disprove religion.
I have to say though, even with scientific evidence, how do you disprove religion anyways? Often people simply adjust their belief a bit, something that's VERY easy as there's so much stuff that's multi-interpretable.
a religious scientist who comes across the situation where their religion is somehow disproven has three options:
1. cease to be religious and continue being a scientist
2. cease to be a scientist and continue with that religion
3. continue to be a scientist and find a religion which has no proof against it.
No pun intended, but all of those options are a bit funny in my opinion. If the person really would be a scientist he would be aware of how theories can be proven wrong and how there is no scientific proof in favor of religions.
All he really has to do when science disproves his belief is change his personal view to fit the new data. If this means that because the Christian God can't possibly exist, then he or she should accept that. It would be a pretty unnatural thing for a scientist to simply disregard evidence and keep on believing in there own things. I'm aware there might be a certain 'comfort zone of their own theories' that they rather wouldn't see changed drastically because of some proof, however if facts disprove things you have previously believed in, then you should adapt your view.
It's like when you find out Santa Claus isn't real... It might hurt, but you have to live with it.
and there will always be a religion with no proof against it as long as there is Christianity
Why? There are plenty of things in the Bible that we can or could prove to be wrong actually. Whether 'Christians' would accept any genuine rebuttals is something else. Again, this is why there's an incompatibility with science, religion doesn't usually accept scientific evidence.
