The Farmer and the Cowman

I'm always amazed  (naively, I suppose) at the intense antagonism between religion and science. 

I find religious intolerance to be a strange beast, and I think that the fuel that feeds the religious/scientific conflict is the same fuel that feeds the conflicts between religions, between world views, between tribes. 
You're not me -- you're wrong,  dead wrong, and so blind to your wrongness that I'm revolted and enraged and I must convince you of your wrongness, or destroy you and be rid of the evil.

I believe in evolution.  I believe in a compassionate, merciful, creative God. 
I believe in scientific inquiry.  I believe in love beyond comprehension.
I believe in my utterly unique perspective on this world and time and the utterly unique and essential perspectives of others. 
Credo.