[LibertarianSchmoe]

Still many respondents are scratching their heads and expressing perplexity that such topical matter should find itself in the Religion Forum in the first place. To which I have to say to such people: You've got to be kidding! Just look at yourselves! Your reaction to the things I've said reminds me of the reactions that Christians had to Serrano's photograph of the crucifix suspended in a glass of urine. Such a response, in my view, is not exactly rational....

Can you be specific about which reactions warrant your characterization? I think you've asked some interesting questions, and I hardly expected the "Darwinism is just a religion" from you.

[betty boop]

I hardly expected the "Darwinism is just a religion" from you.

I didn't say or mean to imply that Darwinism is "just a religion." It is a scientific theory that appears to have "good legs." There are other scientific theories that also seem to have "good legs," such as the big bang/inflationary universe model. But I don't "worship" either theory. And if subsequent investigation should undermine either one, I wouldn't be "upset."

However, it is clear to me that for some other people, the attachment to Darwinist evolutionary theory has become a sort of passionate faith commitment that bears all the signs of belief in the religious sense.

Thanks for writing LibertarianSchmoe!