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The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.

Peter Gay (1970). “The Bridge of Criticism; Dialogues Among Lucian, Erasmus, and Voltaire on the Enlightenment: --on History and Hope, Imagination and Reason, Constraint and Freedom--and on Its Meaning for Our Time”
The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.