Something to think about.

I'm pausing from my Estates and Trusts exam to read the news and I see a story of reason overcoming scheming.

Two sources:
Newspaper of Record
Foreigners who are surprised this is even an issue.

I think it's interesting that we Americans are struggling with teaching creation in a science class when even the Catholic Church (the people who brought you the inquisition and excommunicated Galileo) admits that ID is not science, but that it should be taught as religion.

People wonder why the US lags behind other countries in math and science, it's because, apparently, large portions of our country teach their children to look for easy answers instead of really trying to explore nature. They teach them to deny science instead of reconciling demonstrable truth with their faith.

Religion and science share one thing, they both require a rigorous testing in order to be strong (Religion: Job; Science: the scientific method). Without absolute rigor, either will fail and our culture suffer from going with out. The attempt to interject religion into science (ID) or science into religion (possibly, the Physics of God) weakens both.

Lets hope that this leads to the development of 1) Faith strong enough to question the universe without leading to atheism and 2) the possession, by students, of at least a modicum of scientific knowledge (no more "space ships punch holes in the ozone layer," please).

In any case, I'm almost done with exams...that's something to WOOT about.