Well, even revolutions have their conservatives. I'm sure there are a few people who thought it was a bad idea, but their much more reasonable plan (exchanging a dozen different spirit cults in a controlled pilot program, or whatever) was defeated in council/caucus/the emperors affection, and they afterwards muttered bitterly that they knew it was a mistake from the start. While those originally in favour of the goddess switch busied themselves with complicated analyses of how it wasn't their fault.
It is extremely obvious that the God Learners, depending on how you define God Learner of course, did not act in a particularly unified manner. It is obvious that they were not all in agreement about the numerous experiments, especially with so many different avenues of enquiry being followed. In fact, its pretty unlikely the God Learners where never all in agreement about anything.
Of course, a lot of God Learners might talk about how foolhardy some particular experiment is, while performing an equally rash one themselves, especially in the latter days. As the various disasters begin to occur, an air of intellectual urgency begins to set it, each faction claiming their own mad scheme is the answer while warning that the other mad schemes will lead to disaster.
(Actually, secretly I think some God Learners actually WERE good guys, not just well meaning maniacs. But many of these are remembered not as God Learners, but as Saints or heroes, bravely saving people from the impact of the disasters. They are not thought of as God Learners either because they had very good PR, or because they deliberately removed evidence of God Learning (ie founders of Caladra and Aurelion).)
Cheers
David
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