[Ichneumon]

Anyhow, after all is said and done, the scientific method is faith in action. Never more, often less.

ROFL! No, this is not the case. Of all the methods humans have ever devised to try to acquire knowledge or find truth, the scientific method is the one that *LEAST* resembles "faith in action", it's the one that is the *farthest* from just relying on "faith".

[NavVet]

The only problem with the scientific method when applied to theories like the spontaneous creation of life from inert matter or the big bang theory is that you have to use a lot of bondo to fill in the holes in the theory. I don't care if they teach ID or not, but I would like the teachers in any discipline to not gloss over the holes in a theory just because they find it politically expedient.