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Line 1: − + − Scientists have traditionally been holy men (such as devout Christian [[Isaac Newton]]<ref> http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newtlife.html</ref> or monk Gregor Mendel<ref>http://www.adherents.com/people/pm/Gregor_Mendel.html</ref>), devoted to understanding nature in an effort to glorify the works of God. However, in recent years the field of science has become dominated by secular atheists who value evidence over the infallible word of God<ref>http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/news/file002.html</ref>. They support modern-day scientific theories such as [[evolution]], the [[Theory of Relativity]], and heliocentrism that contradict the unchanging truth of the Bible.+ − ==Reference== + + + +
Remove tendentious nonsense, even though what's left is a silly tautology. Make it less silly by adding origin of the word.
A scientist is a practitioner of [[science]].
A scientist is a practitioner of [[science]].
The invention of the word ''scientist'' is often credited to [[William Whewell]] (1794-1866), who was himself a scientist as well as a moral philosopher and Anglican priest. In 1858, he wrote:
:As we cannot use ''physician'' for a cultivator of physics, I have referred to him as a ''Physicist.''
:We need very much[sic] a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a ''Scientist.'' Thus we might say that as an Artist is a Musician, Painter, or Poet, a Scientist is a Mathematician, Physicist, or Naturalist.<ref>Whewell, William (1858), ''Novum Organon Renovatum: Being the second part of the philosophy of the inductive sciences,'' J. W. Parker and Son, [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC22881657&id=xYMKAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA14-PA338&lpg=RA14-PA338&dq=%22william+whewell%22+scientist p. 338]</ref>
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