“Yeah, well like they say, it takes as much faith to believe in science as religion.”

I had just been suckerpunched. After spending the last several minutes explaining evolution and its relevance to the history of our species I was hit between the eyes with that old one-liner. Even worse, there was no time to respond. Given that I was a guest in an evangelical home on Christmas and dinner had just been set I simply replied “I don’t think that’s true at all.”

Asserting that science is just as much a religion as Christianity must be one of those things that Christians like. It is a comment lobbed into a conversation that is meant to neutralize the opponent by shifting