re: #227 arcatan

No, in fact real scientists know that they don’t know everything, there is certainly much they cannot explain. Creationists merely put a name to the inexplicable, making no more claim.

Which I guess sets them apart from I.D. creationists, who believe they have the explanation even when there’s no empirical evidence to support it.

I’m a practical atheist, I have no religious belief at all, but I do know there is more than just material reality in the universe, I just don’t know what it is.

Actually, I believe that makes you an agnostic.

I am no more pleased that the material rationalists seek to indoctrinate the children with a one dimensional world view than I was to see religious domatics do so. There a little room for questions here.

They don’t attempt to do so. Science presents any theories which are supported by empirical evidence. Science should not be interested in ‘world views’ at all, and is not interested in indoctrination. It’s interested in evidence, facts, testing, and observation. It has nothing in common with religion, nor should it. That’s the whole point of keeping things like I.D. out of the science classroom.