[PatrickHenry]

My concern with "sola scriptura" Prostestantism --if I understand it aright--is that it cannot ultimately traffic with any other intellectual endeavour, least of all science. This, at least, appears to be part of the argument advanced by at least some scientists against ID, id est, it isn't science, it's an attempt to sabotage science.

Your understanding is spot on.

[ToryHeartland]

Your understanding is spot on.

Thanks, but my understanding is still struggling.

I can understand (though I do not share their view) that there are those who profess a particular faith which they feel is incompatible with science, and my instinct is, that is a personal matter with which the state must not interfere. What I do not understand is why those of such a faith do not simply choose to ignore science, as they have deemed it irrelevant, rather than to launch a campaign to change the nature of science as if it could be made compatible with their faith.

That seems as bizzare to me as if I were to launch a campaign to make Buddhism compatible with my love of hunting. I've got enough on my plate campaigning against the socialists in power here (who have outlawed things dear to my heart) to worry about Buddhists...