Sorry I took so long to respond. Here is what I am explicitly trying to say, and it must be prefaced with a context:
First the context: I am talking about the theory of evolution and its proponents, only. I am not talking about creationism.
Now, what I am trying to say: Most, as in the vast majority, of the evolutionists I have come across in my travels meet Freds (the article I posted) definition of adherents to a religion. You may not, but most of them do. That's it in a nutshell.
My side note about taking apart the clock is just my way of saying that science is interesting and all (heck just look at where we are headed with nanotechnology), but ultimately, it is pointless. Only there for entertainment. I say that because nothing ever given us by science compares even remotely to what rewards are reaped with a relationship with God. Science is, and always will be, a relative thing. It's just fun, like finding tadpoles as a boy is fun; or making your own paper boat is fun. It is why God gave us brains and the physical world. I see us as kind of Gods ant farm. The universe and creation are partly there to satisfy our curiosity, giving up their secrets only after hard work. It keeps us interested.
I know this particular point has nothing to do with the origin of species, but I thought I would try to clarify the remark anyway.
Oh, and I have every right to question what some government employee (teacher) teaches my child. Most of those guys are the worst of the religious evolutionist zealots. Try discussing uniformitarianism and catastrophism with any of them and most just kind of glaze over. And they're teaching our kids?!?!
I think there are a few billion people on the earth who might disagree with you on that, or should, since they wouldn't be alive without science and its technological fruits.
I say that because nothing ever given us by science compares even remotely to what rewards are reaped with a relationship with God.
Except, as noted, the ability of six billion odd persons to seek, at their choice, such a relationship. I don't find that insignificant myself. Additionaly many of the opportunities available to those of us in the civilized world (beyond but including not having to watch a majority our offspring die in childhood) derive from the fruits of science; and many of our freedoms are not unrelated to "scientific" values such as respect for knowledge and critical inquiry.