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I have to make mention of this supposed inability of religion or religious people to accept change or contradictory evidence. If that were true, there would have been no Judaism, since it links to a founder in Abraham as having turned to Yahweh first. Christianity was built on the introduction of "new evidence or theory" to Judaism, and Islam was a radical change from either of those two but also claiming some connection. The Protestant Reformation began with Martin Luther challenging Rome by presenting a series of theses that argued inside of Christendom. Hinduism is replete with examples of individuals changing the religious practices (Krishna stands out), and Buddhism ran counter to much of the prevailing Hindu or other beliefs, whether you talk about Siddhartha, Bodhidharma or Padmasambhava. And there are instances where the leading individuals in one or another religion found reason to change to another through personal conviction, not coercion.

And it also goes to say that many scientists have, in their day, been attacked, ostracized or ignored by the other scientists because what they presented ran counter to whatever the current theories and understandings were. Many scientists, like artists, gained much of their appreciation in times after they first published or made known their ideas, sometimes after their death.