Good thinking. Note however that lying to others can do you good, lieing to yourself, not so. Understanding our world leads to longer survival. Science already dismisses God, we see time after time the waken humans are the scientists and hackers, not the laypeople.
Lying to one's self is the irony of religion, because despite the fact that science can demonstrate that there is no need for a God that doesn't destroy the belief in god. By believing in the lie human beings can produce better brain chemistries that avoid mental illnesses, inclusive of depression. One of the points Schumaker states is indigenous tribes have little to no mental illness that our modern societies are plagued with! So, effectively, lying to oneself can be good.
While scientists can be viewed as the awakened ones, those taking the red pill, to those persisting with religion, those taking the blue pill, we can see scientists still being vulnerable to the blue pill. Take for instance "Backward Time Travel", Enistien created time as a dimension to be used as a mathematical tool, not to be confused as a new spatial dimension. Quite a few scientists have been looking at that time-line in relativity for soo long that they now believe it to be a real dimension no different than a spatial dimension. This backward time-travel religion forgets that time is caused by the exchange of information, not through a time dimension! The time dilation equation clearly states why time slows down as you approach the speed of light.
Note that within the square root term all velocity is expressed as a percentage of the speed of light squared. Effectively that term is a clamp on the rate of information exchanged in our reality. As you approach the speed of light you can see that information takes longer to reach its destination, where force carriers to convey momentum can only move at the speed of light. So you can never reach the speed of light because the information to impart momentum will never reach its destination. Why? Because motion is actually causing the distance between two points within a moving frame to be longer relative to slower-moving frames inclusive of frames that don't move at all, so c never reaches its destination since relatively speaking information moving at c takes too long to reach its destination within the moving frame. Now if a force carrier could move faster than light, say something like a tachyon, then the information clamp would have to change from c to the maximum velocity of the tachyon. Now any clock that can exchange information using the tachyon still ticks but all clocks that rely on c to exchange information remain still, they
DO NOT move backward in time! Why? Because the distance between the two points of exchange increased from the perspective of the slower or standing still frames to where c still cannot reach the destination within the moving frame.
But time travel fans will still bark that backward time travel is possible because they argue that since causality operates at the speed of light anything moving faster than light violates causality! So anything violating causality, like moving faster than light must have special rules and those rules could include backward time travel! I kid you not that is the argument for backward time travel.
So here we can see that even scientist can lie to themselves for the convenience of getting research funding, selling books or just getting on the evening news...
