"I find it funny, although sad, the unadulterated hated and derision exhibited by the left for the christian fundamentalists in the US today and yet so many of them engage in the same type of FAITH based beliefs. Like so many fundamentalists everywhere, they insist the rest of us believe along with them."

Your are confusing two very different things, faith and science. You can bank on science, not so with faith.

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