Just as bad as the anti-science stance is the historical revisionism. Rewriting our nation's past to make it appear as if we were founded as a Christian nation is as equally egregious as telling people we were sculpted from dirt 6,000 years ago.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell