[Elspode]

1. Ever wonder where all that stuff that falls into black holes goes? I like to pretend that it comes out in another dimension. Maybe it accumulates in a big cosmic garbage bag until the bag breaks like the wimpy one in the Hefty commercials, creating another Big Bang there.

2. Until Science matured enough (note I didn't say 'evolved'...that would have been like making a bad pun) to explain many things, religion *was* politics. Every political system is nothing more than a set of rules and regulations with someone at the top of an hierarchy anyway. So, instead of Freedom and the Constitution, substitute God and The Bible, and - voila'! Religion as Government!

3. Just because Science can't explain everything yet doesn't mean that Religion can...and vice versa. Both are fallible. Both have merits. Yes, there, I've said it. I'm a religious pragmatist, and I like it that way. I want my science and my deities and invisible powers too. If this was a free country, I could believe this without anyone trying to make me do otherwise by teaching me their unprovable crap. I'm not trying to teach anyone my unprovable crap.

Teach what is verifiable as Science, teach the rest as Philosophy, or Religion, or Sociology...whatever. Use it as Show and Tell, maybe.