I was thinking about how king solomon was considered the wisest man and that made him king of Israel with 700 wives and 300 concubines.
For being the wisest man most of his wisdom was saying that wisdom is good and that women are difficult to manage.
One such example of this was when he was a judge and there were two women who claimed to be the mother of a child.
Solomon decided that if both women thought the child was theirs he would cut the child in half down the center and give each woman a half.
When only one woman cried out in horror King Solomon gave her custody of the child.

It makes me think how the most compelling justification for believing someone is just how strongly the react.
Conspicuous displays of sacrifice for one's beliefs are apparently one of the best predictors for religiosity in a community.
Like the woman who cries a the thought of her child being harmed is worth believing is the real mother the most passionate believers in God would verify his reality.
What religious people seem to miss is that there are people in scientific fields who are taking far greater risks socially, politically and mortally due to their faith in scientific rigor than anyone has ever done for the sake of faith in a God. For one, going on expeditions so extreme that they go to another celestial body and back multiple times.

The biggest problem with this is that science, while inspiring conspicuous displays of sacrifice which validate the truth of revelations it does not practiced for the sake of reverence.
Scientists can be overwhelmingly awful people who have no concern for the lives of others or their own and that is what allows them to participate in such sacrifice.
Someone motivated by worship is motivated by being worthy of worship himself or at least will find himself deserving of it with genuine reverence for a respectable kind of person.
Scientists have no heroes nor a framework for honor. Never are they motivated by survival nor creativity.
There are surely great achievements of a scientific kind and religious institutions have produced great scientific minds.

Were humanity the child with one woman guided by what would provide new data (one of a scientific mind) and the other guided by what would make her respectable (one of a worshiping mind) which woman would cry for the child?
I'm fairly sure that it would not be the one who is collecting data on the Israeli justice system.

Schizoid Man - go to this post

Jew. If anyone ever denies that you're Jewish then one only need see this thread to prove it.

Actually reading the most popular book of all time can't possibly make someone Jewish.