Clearly, you also have no understanding of scientific method. Reading the article at the link I provided earlier would help with that.
Since I really come to FreeRepublic to discuss politics, not to try to educate people who don't want to be educated, I'm really not interested in continuing this kind of discussion.
The only reason I commented in the first place was to try to shake GourmetDan's absolute certainty about the nature/motivations of scientists by inserting the viewpoint of an actual scientist. I'm sure that you're able to understand when I say that I don't like being mischaracterized by people who have no understanding of what I do or how I think.
I'm a scientist myself, and have been applying the scientific method for half of my life. And evolution does not - despite the rah rah article you posted, and regardless of what Stephen Hawking might think - qualify.