From the Realm of Dreams blog:

http://www.lightstudy.org/askevidence.htm

His analogy with quantum physics is seriously flawed. As an experimental science, physics can only progress by serious criticism and questioning; by asking for what he calls "evidences" and submitting them to the most rigorous analysis. The founders of Quantum physics became such not by memorizing books by rote, but by having the vision to construct novel experiments and to interpret existing experimental results in novel ways. Any _good_ scientist (as opposed to someone merely trying to puff themselves up) will be able to reference the assertions they make back to either peer reviewed journal articles or original research. The former, of course, represent a synthesis of previous research and current experimental results. What is the result of this method in the sciences? Astounding, nearly exponential progress in nearly every field of scientific research. And what of the alternative, of learning by rote, of bowing to the authority of (and one could say, worshiping) the dead? Stagnation. And stagnation is something that this Ummah cannot afford.