Precisely. I understand the debate and the motivations toward it, and under normal circumstances I'm willing to live and let live. Understand, however, that I've escaped from a lifetime of "hooey" to realize that everything I was taught by these self-proclaimed experts was bullpocky. It flips my trigger to be on a forum devoted to the advancement of scientific inquiry (look at the topics about chemistry, metallurgy, physics, etc) and have people lurk here that label that same science as a bunch of "hooey". Science contradicts religion in every concievable way and they are mutually exclusive. It is a XOR situation, not OR. For people to believe in science when it is convenient and then disparage it when it contradicts untenable beliefs ... yeah, I guess I'm a little quick to go on the offensive.
The closest I've encountered to a compatible relationship between science and religion is the current belief of my wife: she believes in evolution and all other scientific reasoning, but believes that the original act of creation was triggered by god, and that the original events that worked toward the first viable cells were also guided by him. She believes that many of the hebrew myths in the bible are allegorical (which I agree with wholeheartedly) rather than literal. I don't have any problem with that kind of belief system because at least she leans on reason ... whatever else she believes makes her feel good so I'm not going to complain.
I don't despise religion at all. I despise the self-righteous bullsh!tters that try to tear down the pillars of logic and reason because it doesn't fit into their fairy tale beliefs comfortably. God forbid they have to think on their own ....
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