[thefactor]

thanks for the pity, but it is not warranted. just because i do not believe in a book written to keep people in line and is, at BEST, loosely translated from the original text, does not make me a bad person. i merely subscribe to a different ideology.

[mlc9852]

Everyone is a bad person. What you believe or don't believe has nothing to do with that. Some scientists even think humans are "wired" spiritually. But maybe some people just aren't.

[doc30]

unfortunately, if IDer philosophy supplats scientific rational, then we may well be looking at people being elected that have such a theological bent that if you do not subscribe to their beliefs you will be an underclass of society. But then again, if science is scrapped for the sake of religion, thee will be plenty of other developed countires where someone with a strong technical and/or scientific background can flourish. After all, once the U.S. discards science, it will no longer be able to sustain itself as a strong country.