Evolution as Science vs Theology (Score 1)

I would just like to point out a common fallacy that Roblimo and many others seem to fall into. That is that a link exists between your scientific theories and your beief system. Evolutionary theory is as close to scientific fact as it can ever be short of doing several four billion year experiments to prove it once and for all. However, this has absolutely nothing to do with whether a person is secular or religious. Unfortunately, many religious people try to tie their beliefs to scientific theories they believe jive with their religious beiefs (hence the strong following for creationist or ID ideas). However, secular types are just as prone to the same poor judgement in linking their secular (read ideological) beliefs to the science that is evolutionary theory. The fact of the matter is that one has nothing to do with the other. A person can choose to believe or not believe in God. A person can choose to believe evolutionary theory or something else that makes much less scientific sense. The fallacy that there is a tie between scientific theory and theology is at the root of why we see some of these strangely cobbled together, less-than-scientific theories on the origins of our universe. Perhaps if we "more educated" people cast down this fallacy, these holdover theories would disappear. A final word - science doesn't reveal the answer to the question "Why?"