As a result of some research I am doing I was reading an article from Rolling Stone about a trial pitting the forces of Intelligent Design against those of Evolution in the US school system. For the most part the article seems to have been written by a bored reporter who found the whole thing rather amusing but a waste of his time. Still, there was a nice little statement by the reporter toward the end of the article which I think is fairly accurate; It is a social observation about the nature of faith and science in our culture:
"For a century or so since Nietzsche, popular culture in the West has operated according to an uneasy truce, in which God both is dead and is not dead. We teach our children the evidence-based materialism of science and tell them they can believe in God and a faith-based morality in their spare time if they like."
We (silly Humans) do this all the time. We find areas of uncomforatble tension and then divide them into neat little categories, artificially push them apart and keep them in the dark margins hoping they never meet. The problem with this is that life is lived in the tension – death lurks in the margins.
Harnessing Chaos 