Frank Hamilton, you are a fine, perhaps even great musician. and a whole bunch of other wonderful things too, but you are way over your head here--

When you advocate a "scientific" evaluation of religion, you are opening the door to demands for a religious evalation of science, which is exactly the problem that "Squawkin' Dawkins" and company are worried about in the first place.

And the sad fact is that "religion" looks better when held up to the light of science, than science looks when held up to the light of religion--