The cat's never out of the bag with science. Its nature is to constantly change with new information and analyses.
To what end, if not as supportive of your own?
To show that successful astronomers can be Christian. In fact, about half of scientists are religious, with most of them being Christian. Actual atheists, the group from which would spring your hard-core Christianity haters, are a minority, less than those who don't care about religion. While there do exist those in science who would punish someone for his beliefs, there is no larger anti-Christian conspiracy.
Besides, I do have the ability to support others. I'm not Catholic or Jewish, but at times I find myself defending them.
I would agree with you . . . in the abstract. But let’s acknowledge that scientists are as susceptible to pretentiousness as any of us. With those scientists, sooner or later, the cat is always out of the bag. And this seems to occur because they believe that fact and theory has brought them to TRVTH. As you observe, it is the nature of Science to deal in hypothesis, theory and fact. It doesn’t deal in TRVTH. Rather it is a superior fact-finding methodology and, ironically, it was the happy inspiration of a Judeo-Christian culture that is now being threatened by people who seek to destroy it using that very same methodology.
Where ever Holy Scripture is declared to be simplistic and primitive, therefore mythical, for me a red flag goes up.
“In fact, about half of scientists are religious”
So it is rumored. But that number is subject to an array of issues: To whatever degree it is accurate, what is the significance of that fact? What does it contribute to resolving whether or not Holy Scripture is myth? Does it include only the “hard” sciences? Are ‘religious’ scientists distributed more or less evenly across the spectrum of sciences? What of preeminent scientists (such as Dawkins or Dennett) who declare no genuine scientist can be religious?
“Actual atheists, the group from which would spring your hard-core Christianity haters, are a minority”
What is the data for that assertion? Why would Agnostics not be included among the “hard-core Christianity haters”? I would think that an overwhelming majority of scientists would understand that scientifically they can assert no more than agnosticism.
“there is no larger anti-Christian conspiracy.”
I do not understand how you can say that. Every day we see contradicting evidence on this very forum.