Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is Truth.
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.
As scientists, we need to not be afraid of the truth.
Far too many scientists, including my good friend Richard Dawkins, present science as the truth and present it as factually correct. And actually, of course, that clearly isn't true.
Science is but an image of the truth.
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Science is not, despite how it is often portrayed, about absolute truths. It is about developing an understanding of the world, making predictions, and then testing these predictions.
Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.