The Conflict Between Science and Religion.

The conflict between science and religion is best exemplified in recent times in the desecration of the Catholic church made by the biologist P Z Myers of the University of Minnesota.  Myers was able through theft to obtain a consecrated host from a Catholic church.  In an attempted effort to show that the consecration is not a true reality, Myers attempted to damage the host.  This spawned a widespread outrage from Catholic groups and even led to some death threats against Myers.  This illustrates the continuing conflict between some prominent atheists and religious groups.  It should be noted that Myers intends only to bring down Christianity and especially the Catholic church as that is the principle article of his ire.  He has little intention of attacking Jewish, Islamic, or other groups which also adhere to a non-materialist worldview.  Atheists such as Myers claim to speak for all of science in their demands that one follow a materialist worldview.  It should be noted that many of these prominent atheists are in fact evolutionary biologists and that their careers hinge on the validity of the Darwin theory.  Their attacks on religious groups (especially on religious believers who often are minding their own business) are disturbing in that they show that the two worldviews of materialism and non-materialism can no longer operate in seperate sectors of society but now must bleed into one another.  Materialists and atheists have long accused religionists (and especially their favorite bugbear "the religious right" and "fundamentalists") of playing an undo part in government.  This melding of religion and the state is seen to be disturbing.  (It should be noted that one question that needs to be asked is whether or not religion and the state can ever be totally seperated).  However, now materialist and atheist groups also advocate through the state, often impingining on believers.  They demand that only the Darwin theory of evolution be taught in classrooms and no other (insisting that other alternatives such as Intelligent Design are in fact "cloaked creationism" only because they want to keep them out of schools).  They also demand that sex education become an important part of school curriculum despite the opposition of traditionalists and the religious.  Thus, it is becoming more and more apparent that the two worldviews cannot co-exist and that one must over-ride the other.  And increasingly it is becoming apparent that secularists are more miltant and demand their worldview over-ride all others in the United States.  In other nations it may be different, but the United States is witnessing an enormous decline in that the original population no longer occupies a position of prominence and is increasingly displaced by both minorities and elites who do not share the traditional worldview.