I quite agree, Mrr, but I'm kinda up in the air about which "side" is the idiocy.

Lots of scientists -- damned good ones, Nobel prize winners -- see no incompatibility between their religious beliefs and what their science demonstrates. I find it rather comforting to know that the elements from which I'm made were formerly parts of stars and other things in the Universe and that this body will eventually return those elements for re-use -- and participate in this whole discussion again.