How many people here openly admit to being a creationist?

You're such a whiney little bitch. 

You're still whining... Don't make me come and kick your ass.

   I am a big fan of science and always have been.  I'm old.  I grew up with the space program; Mercury, Gemini, Apollo.  I was  just short of six years old when Alan Shepard rode a Mercury capsule atop a Redstone rocket into space.  I knew which astronauts were on each mission and what new thing each did.  I've forgotten most of that.  I had and still have a microscope and a telescope.  I did not make my own telescope, but I considered getting supplies from the Edmund Scientific Company to do that.  Of course I enjoy computing and know and use quite many computer languages.  I enjoy solving problems in physics just for the fun of it.

   I suppose a lot of people are as fond of science as I am and for similar reasons.  Not all of them however are very good at science themselves.  Many Democrats are more fond of science than they are capable of it.

   I am also very religious.  About my third year of elementary school while in a waiting room at the doctor's office (or dentist's, that's not the point.  It wasn't my appointment.  I was along because there was no sitter.) I saw an article in a magazine titled "We don't have bodies, we are bodies."  I just "knew" that wasn't correct, or I for some reason decided it cannot be correct.  I have always had a spiritual interpretation of reality since, and a distrust of medical doctors.  Just as many Democrats are not really good at science, many Republicans are not really religious, especially as you might have guessed, Trump supporters.

   With the exception of that one magazine article I have seen religion and science as working together just fine all my life.  I am however very disturbed by the political parties and their severe mishandling of religion and science.

   Although "science" is a wonderful thing and ordinarily "indisputable," popular notions of science are a problem.  No one can argue that the boiling point of water is anything but what it is.  No one argued over the gas laws or the laws of motion, since those are easily and repeatably confirmed.  It would be great if that certainty could be extended to problems in society.  My point here is that it is not possible.  If everyone could agree that they want a birdhouse, science could recommend one that attracts a specific bird to control a specific harmful insect.  When people cannot agree whether they want a birdhouse, a lawn sprinkler, or a badminton court, science is really useless.  Most issues in society arise because people cannot agree what the problem is.

   A lot of people in both parties, and including Trump supporters, think religion is the problem and science is the solution.  Their approach however is political, not religious or scientific.  In fact "science," or rather popular notions of it, are the problem.

Maybe God dropped a crate of manna each day, and that detail was left out of the ship's log.