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Why? I think scientists' minds are often closed to the possibility of a creator.
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Vulcan comment was about things we understand with our 5 senses, not about the possibility of a creator.
And I would say you are demonstrably wrong about scientists' minds.. A perfect example is the universe itself, it was less than 100 years ago where a steady state eternal universe was the prevailing view (for lack of any substantial theory or evidence). When the Big Bang theory came around, a great many scientists found it distasteful because it, on the surface, seems to imply a creator.
However that did not stop them from accepting the theory.. They had to because that's what the evidence compelled them to do.
Science appears closed to the idea of a creator not because it doesn't like the idea, but because there's no evidence yet for it.
If the evidence changed, then science's position would change.
Proposing
unexplainable deus ex machina doesn't actually explain anything. EDIT: I meant unexplainable.
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Maybe they think it discredits their work.
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What happens to scientists that come up with radical new things that go against the rest of science (that actually are demonstrated to be right)? They win Nobel Prizes.
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There are many scientists, however, whose belief in God strengthens with each discovery.
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Just because one's belief is strengthened by something does not make that thing correct.
And their beliefs may be strengthened, but they're strengthened in a "spiritual" way, not in a scientific way (i.e. how one sees god in the beauty of a waterfall or a tree, but that waterfall or tree doesn't actually constitute evidence of god).