Warning, Controversial Topic: When Faith Trumps Reason

First, let me preface this post by the statement that I am not anti-God (nor anti-religion for that matter as I believe the social and cultural constructs of religion serve a valuable place in the human psyche). My beliefs in the matter are completely irrelevant to the position that I am going to take around creationism vs. evolutionary theory. What concerns me most, as I will explain, is the danger of “extreme belief systems” that go against logical and rational thought.

Although it has flare...