Dear Steven,

Poirot has made an excellent point.
It could be related to funding, but it
could also be subjective as well.
I also read about that particular conference,
in Richard Dawkins, "The God Delusion."
Dawkins attended that Cambridge Conference on
Science and Religion for two days, giving a talk
of his own and taking part in the discussion and
several other talks.

As Dawkins tells us he was criticized for his
opinions (being the token atheist there), they told
him:
" Who was I to say that rational
argument was the only admissible kind of argument?
There are other ways of knowing besides the
scientific, and it is one of these other ways of
knowing that must be deployed to know God..."

Therefore it seems that even scientists can be
intolerant and possess personal and subjective
biases.

Ian Robertson tells us in his book,
"Sociology,":

"On the subject of tolerance of dissent.
A tolerance of criticism and of dissenting opinions
is fundamental to democracy. Governing parties
must resist the temptation to equate their own
policies with the national good, or they will tend
to regard opposition as disloyal or even treasonable.
Similarly, democracies must avoid the danger of the
"tyranny of the majority." The democratic process may
work in such a way that a small minority is rendered
permanently powerless. For groups in this position,
democracy might as well not exist, and its important
that governments should recognize the grievances of
minorities that have little political clout. If the
losers in the political process don't accept the
legitimacy of the process under which they've lost, they
may end up resorting to more radical tactics outside the
institutional framework."

WELL said snake..<<.."Faith"..is a belief/founded on authority.>>

and here we have the crux of the problem
such as like the dorkins..[a physicyst]..espousing evolution of genus

and those not knowing their speicies..nor their genus...dare to believe a great deciever/authority..despite being clearly IGNORANT of mendelic ratios/and the fact species..can ONLY replicte within their genus...HARD and fast laws

<<Believers/in..their PARTICULAR-god/head..feel that this authority is unassailable and therefore his/her word cannot be disputed even though there is no proof...that they espouse/that he/she exists.>>

it washes both-ways
all the evidence of evolution/WITHIN their genus
has no ablicatability...OUTSIDE of their genus..!

but the faithfull...TRUSTING/on blind-faith..their godhead/saint...have belief..in the unbelievably/impossable

actually believe fish[cold-blood..evolves into beast...warmblood]
or actually believe some wolf/mammal...created the whale

they are so blinded/BY THEIR OWN IGNORANCE..they believe..on faith..the most amasing fables

even worse the fables of reserction/day..or judgment-day...jesus..died..AND CAME BACK...proving/there is NO DAY of judgnment..PROVING..he was res-erected...!

only by the faithfull..believing of faith...their let faith blind them to the bleeding obvious..!

<<Consequently..any alternative view..is automatically regarded as intolerant.>>>and rejected..UNTHINKINGLY..

<<It is impossible/to argue against faith..as it is not/based on logic and reality.>>>egsactly...!

its sad that they are decieved by bllod-drinking demons/authority..as if the big-clues arnt there[who hangs a dead corpse...in their chapple..but those who dont get the ten-commands...[no imagry...!]

who believes pretty pictures,..of a tree of life..with no root
or those prettty PICTURES..of the latest missing link/fraud

people are too trusting/what they think is too complicated..they trust others to DO FOR THEM...till the day they realised..they have been decieved...[and worse decieved others]

god is ALL LOVING...all living..mercy/grace
sustaining even the most vile...their life

yet look/at those/dead
died in the name of the demonic..religion..of war..!
yet not dead..only decierved..by some higher authority
[that now own it all][ie 4 percent/own 96 percent of the cake,...HOW?

by usurping authority/creating belief systems
but,...THAT YE DO/did to the least..you did to him