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Very shortly, for Reason:
Look around you, try to calm down, and please don't hate on people. Be secure in the knowledge that religious fundamentalists will probably never be as powerful as they are now, barring, of course, some rapid regression into "Mad Max-hood" brought on by peak oil. Yes, I feel for the children out there who have been told that there is science behind creation myths, but you've got to trust in our robust democracy and educational system to make self-corrections.
And Cary:
I almost appreciated what you've done here: thinking about fundamentalists as a primitive tribe. Fundamentalists have a word for your philosophy: moral relativism. In conceding that fundamentalists have their own definition of the word "science," and that this should be tolerated, you have conceded the Enlightenment principles that have done us very well for the past 400 years or so. Well, at least one of those principles -- the one that says, "People are entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts."
