Do Religious People Test Their Ideas the Way Scientists Do?

Do Religious People Test Their Ideas the Way Scientists Do?

How would you respond to this statement from Sean Carroll, Caltech physicist and one of the authors of Discover Magazine’s Cosmic Variance blog?

“If believers in God spent a tiny fraction of the time that modern cosmologists spend trying to invent alternatives to their favorite ideas and testing them against evidence … well let’s just say the world would be a very different place.”