[Brilliant]

What the scientists are really doing, I think, is they are intentionally steering away from theories that give the fundamentalists something to argue about. Their conclusions are not guided by science so much as by politics--and horrors--religion (or lack thereof).

[AntiGuv]

What the scientists are really doing, I think, is they are intentionally steering away from theories that give the fundamentalists something to argue about.

Who is stopping the "fundamentalists" from conducting their own scientific studies toward establishing the merit of their theories?

[inPhase]

Werner Heisenberg said

~if I was to say that I am a Christian, that would be saying too much,

but to say I am not a Christian is saying too little

Should read his popular books, although he never bows to gee whiz

[Lexinom]

To be fair, I would be reticent to place all scientists in this category. Many (most) of them are just oblivious followers without any particular worldview agenda. Peer pressure syndrome - "only backwoods idiots believe Creation".

It's the scientific leaders - the Stephen Jay Goulds - that have the anti-Christian, humanistic agendas. You might be surprised at how much of evolutionary theory has its roots in Marx, Herbert Spencer, and even going back further to the prominent thinkers of the French Revolution. All of these figures had specific and well-developed humanistic worldviews that exceeded the bounds of science.

[metacognative]

...and they laughed at theologians counting angels on the head of a pin...the bishops of the modern myth...Darwinites