I love scientists

Hello future customers clients, good to see you again.
Just in time to continue our guided tour of our facilities  I've always had a soft spot for scientists.  Many of the most famous ones caused the Church real problems in the past.  Galileo with his ideas of heliocentrism, Darwin and evolution, Alfred Wegener with his theory of plate tectonics and Teller with that lovely toy, the H-bomb. 

Galileo

Each of the developments produced by these guys caused varying amounts of doubt among the church-goers.  Galileo was actually an obnoxious bore, and not a very good scientist.  He actually is suspected of fudging some of his results, but his name is enshrined amongst the scientific "saints" for his refusal to back down from offering a theory which contradicted the church's beliefs.

Darwin

Darwin with his "Men from Chimps" idea has been more misunderstood than any other scientist in history.  He never said that you humans were evolved from Chimps, but the die-hard Creationists used it as an absurd statement to try and demean the theory in "regular" people's eyes.

Wegener

Wegener was much more subtle.  His theory was gradually accepted by scientists in his field over 20 -30 years.  The gradual acceptance was due to a reluctance to accept that parts of the Earth actually moved, and that all previous theories were wrong.  By the time it had been accepted, it was already in the general population as the accepted theory, the paradigm shift had occurred.  The church suddenly woke up to it too late.  Here was an idea that explained almost all of the observed facts of geology and geography, without even mentioning God.  It also stated that the Earth was not created as a perfect object, but it itself changed.  It also finalised the age of the Earth to 4.54 billion years (± 1%), which was rather a problem for those fundamentalists who still had "faith" in Bishop Ussher who said the Earth was created on 23 October 4004 BC (actually the night before).

Teller (Oops, wrong one)

Teller was responsible for more mass terror than any dictator or torturer of the Inquisition.  His invention caused millions of people, all around the world to live in fear of instant, unforeseeable destruction, with a concomitant increase in despair and a move to "live for the instant" for tomorrow we may die attitude.

The Real Edward Teller

I've got  a special room for scientists.   I don't actually get that many down here, and neither does Her upstairs.  They've got a special arrangement and go somewhere else.But the ones I do get are the Bad scientists.  Not the evil scientist of fame and legend (although I do get some of those) but the scientists who refuse to accept fresh ideas or new data.  These are the ones who treat science as SCIENCE, the religion, and have "faith" rather than an examination of the facts.

Their room is actually a duplicate of the control room of the Chernobyl reactor.  Mussorgsky's "Night on a bare mountain" is playing in the background.  Warning signs are beginning to be displayed, indicators are starting to flash, instrument readings are moving into the danger zones.  The scientists ignore them, and continue to talk amongst themselves, sipping their coffee and tea.  The warnings get louder, more strident.  They still ignore the indications of disaster.

Finally, just as they begin to accept that perhaps the data may be correct and that they have a problem, the wall splits, containment is lost, and radioactive superheated steam rushes in, stripping flesh from bones and irradiating whats left.  No one actually dies, they're already dead, remember? but continued existence under these conditions is rather unpleasant. 

Ouch

One complete cycle takes about 7 days and then I repeat it in a continuous loop.  The screams as the skin crisps and the muscles are cooked are pleasant, but not nearly as nice as the look of silent desperation which starts to appear in their eyes as each cycle re-starts.  They remember.

Be seeing you.