[allmendream]

Defeat? Please. You haven't laid a glove on me with your wacky conspiracy garbage. You make yourself look like a nut with your fantasies about conspiracies among thousands of Scientists (most of whom in the U.S. are people of faith).

[GodGunsGuts]

I wouldn’t call it a conspiracy, they are increasingly open and brazen about it these days. From Lewontin, cited above:

“It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.”