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Posted elsewhere, thought I would share here: 

One stills sees bad thinking formatted in forms like “Science believes”, or “Such and such is incompatible with science.”  We need to be clear that science is a method of inquiry based upon opening ones perceptual apparatus as fully as possible so as to take in as much empirical data as possible prior to making ANY claims about the nature or function of anything, and regularly seeking out new data in a constant quest to refine and when necessary to discard without emotion models which cease being the best available.  Evidence is always primary, and interpretation secondary.  If it can be measured, it is within the domain of science. 

No “scientific” belief which does not account for all available evidence is scientific.  This is an absolute fact, since it depends upon the very DEFINITION of science; and to the extent we have privileged the scientific method as a primary source of information about the physical nature and structure of the world, we have progressed in our understandings.  Our current failing–common throughout most of the elites serving as gate-keepers at our allegedly best universities–is a prevalence of belief that does not take into account, and hence does not account for, all available evidence. 

All of this is a long way of saying this is a good reference link, summarizing good work published in peer reviewed journals which calls into question all ontologies rooted in dogmatic materialism.  http://www.deanradin.com/evidence/evidence.htm