Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.

The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.

Religion is based upon blind faith supported by no evidence. Science is based upon confidence that results from evidence - and that confidence can be modified and/or reversed by further observations and experimentation. Science approaches truth, closer and closer, by hard dedicated work. Religion already has it all decided, and it's in the book. It's dogma, unchangeable, and unaffected by reality and whatever facts we come upon in the real world.

To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.

Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress.