Dave Masterson,
You show a remarkable lack of knowledge of the theory of evolution if you think it has anything at all to say about what happened "in the beginning". It has a lot to say about what happened since. As you say, science can't have a lot to say about where it all began. Nothing can.

I agree that insults are never a good way to discuss an issue, but over on this side of the pond we are far too often having to put up with religious bigots (and I use that word consciously, with it's dictionary definition) trying -- and sometimes succeeding -- to pass their religious beliefs into law. It gets old in a big hurry, and most of us are pretty resentful of having to fight that fight over and over and over again.

And it is actually true that anyone who thinks intelligent design is by any stretch of the imagination science is either idiotic or ignorant or both. But I don't really think most of them believe it. Which makes many of them flaming hypocrites and liars.

Saying that insulting people you disagree with is the same attitude that led to Hitler's Germany is going pretty far over the top. It makes you sound unreasonable, and makes it easy to dismiss anything of value you might have to say. You may want to take that into consideration next time.

John Peekstok