I described myself as accepting the notion that evolution includes supernatural causes in its explanations? Where?
I ask you again for link to a post where anyone supporting evolution describes science as a religion. Not “functioning psychologically as a religion,” but as a religion.
There’s a clear demarcation between science and religion: science requires evidence and builds confidence based on Consilience. Religion requires no evidence. It really isn’t possible for evidence to overturn or modify a system of thought that ignores evidence, and it is impossible for a system that requires no evidence to comment usefully on a system built on evidence.
Those are good reasons for keeping science away from prayer threads, and good reasons for keeping religion away from science threads.
Not “functioning psychologically as a religion,” but as a religion.
***For purposes of our discussion on FR and how to set up threads, no demarcation is necessary. It is clear to many on FR that Scientism is “functioning psychologically as a religion,” even by your own words, and it would make sense to approach it as such for some ecumenical threads so that there is reduced vitriol on Free Republic. The remainder of what you said was some kind of academic exercise that I’m not really interested in. Perhaps if my motivations were what allmendream says they are, then my interests would be in that area. But my interests are not, so I offer it up as evidence that my interests are in reducing invective on crevo threads.