Effect of faith on scientific development

The idea of clash between faith and science is becoming evident as we enter into a phase of awareness of both the need of certainty and the available options to obtain it. This follows an attempt by Roman Catholics to make peace between them, saying that it should not be a contradiction with faith and science since both search for the truth.

It is also evident that some erosion into the pristine idea of organized religion and the deliverable that have been obtained through them. Science have also suffered from a "contamination" of faith in its core from the beginning, the famous Latin dictum :"Magister dixit" has probably now less followers, but we still see scientists believing in "certain" outcomes albeit being not demonstrable.
Scientists have on one side the pressure to make discoveries profitable in Academia expressed as scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals, and on the other the inability to cope with either a failed experiment (theory) or the pressure to maintain a faculty position through "forced publishing" or "forced falsifying". If we consider the amount of papers published and their intrinsic value we will be able to read most of them in a year. 

In this context I will keep pushing, influencing and if necessary, correcting  my colleagues to follow a systematic approach to uncover areas that have been covered by the dust of belief and areas that became uncomfortably acid by the cynicism that comes after a few defeats in the lab or the envy of some otherwise unsuccessful colleagues .

Recent advances in the area of biology are making us reconsider many values we cherished in the past. More and more knowledge has become a threat to the establishment, or those who rest comfortably on the structure of large groups that identify themselves as "keepers of the order and peace".
Let's recall that peace lies very comfortably  in the cemeteries and that our life is anything but peaceful. Struggling with keeping our life well is not enough, but also striving to grow, to create, to perfect nature as we see it fit.
Militarism and religious groups have always recognized death as honorable if it comes amid a battle fought for country and honor for the former or for the "after life myth" for the latter.
Recent extremist's movements have heighten the "suicide martyr" as a new standard in claiming achievement and power dressed under a religious veil to make it appear respectable. Like the "honorable death" of a soldier, the inducement of death, or a lesser form of life (the sacrificed) are more profitable for these groups.
Let's remember that power only belongs to the living, since the dead have exhausted it except when a historian writes about their past and unchangeable life- well the historian may have an interesting version about that life which the deceased may not agree with had he/ she had the power to rebuke.
In the case of the "saints" that have mutilated some part of their body, for the sake of a group, I have no sympathy for their fate or suffering. Perhaps one day they will awaken from that bad dream and achieve what they were born for: to create.
For the other saints that channeled their enormous animal power to build new worlds, those worlds that we can live. taste, enjoy with our senses, our intellect, I have the highest esteem.