[no_mind_golfer]

Science can be a religion too. Modern science would not have been possible without the world view of "priests". I don't think it really is human nature in this world anyway -to rely upon "authority". Modern science sees man and reason as "autonomous". Many have a science god and have sacrificed unto him the very reason they seek to promote. So let's not be to quick to trot out the old cult deal.

Hope you had a nice Christmas Mandrin

Err... No. Beg to differ. Religion has been the biggest impediment to science (maybe it still is). (Can you say dark ages) Galileo Galilei was imprisons for suggesting the Earth orbits the sun (He challenged the priests who's consensus was that Earth was the center of the Universe). Thankfully the French revolution ushered in the "enlightement" and the Age of Reason thereby demoting the priesthood.

Today many of us think we need another "enlightment". Today we have the Priests (man made global warming adherents for example) destroying real scientist's careers and even wanting to pass hate speach laws against the "deniers" because they dare question their politically expedient conclusion (which is that we must tax carbon).

Bucket... Never mistake pseudo-scientists and their ilk (the Al Gores of the world) with real honest hard working "yeoman" scientists. And never mistake Me for Mandrin. I don't agree with much of what he says and consider him one of the former (i.e. pseudo). Also, I don't write anything like his mostly childish mal-formed drivel.... Please. I AM NM not mandrin of la mancha (slayer of windmills)