&gt; <i>You&#x27;ve never heard God mentioned at a conference because the religious people are hiding from bigots like you.</i><p>They probably should. Religious belief betrays at least a partial rejection of what science even is. If you can apply one set of rules to determine, say, the efficacy of some new drug undergoing testing, but another set of rules to how you believe the universe works, then you don&#x27;t really understand either.