May I point out that creationism isn't a religion at all, it's a cosmology? And as such belongs firmly to philosophy?
Utter nonsense. All of it.
Why are you folks deliberately trying to confuse the clear lines between science and religion? Are you truly unable to perceive the differences?
Leave the thread.
My point is that "science vs. religion" is a false dichotomy to begin with. They are not commensurate. And you've been reading my posts long enough by now, Coyoteman, to know that I'm aware of the differences between them, and usually stress these differences.
Which is why I worry when they are being "blended": when scientific observations are endued with metaphysical elements so to produce a "world picture" or cosmology which is utterly materialistic, positivistic, deterministic, anti-God — and anti-Man — which is then embraced with full religious fervor by those who espouse this creed, or doctrine. And then clearly, it is literally "evangelized to the masses."
If you doubt that's true, then how do you account for Richard Dawkins' and Sam Harris' recent best-selling books?