[joegrundman]

You seem to be an enquiring person, Deep Iron, and I hope that you find a way to reconcile this unwanted schism in modern life. And if you do, i hope you publish it.

In the meantime, please try to understand why ID fails. It fails because it tries to shoehorn a poorly developed theory into the scientific framework, where it just does not fit because of serious inadequacies of methodology and epistemology. Citing more instances won't change this. You can get away with it, maybe, if you are talking about a new and poorly understand scientific field, but evolution is one of the oldest and best understood fields, so simple and powerful that it can be summed up in less than a sentence.

Both science and christianity are enormously important aspects of western tradition and society, and any genuine and lasting reconciliation over these really quite severe differences cannot be gained by forcing either party to accept what cannot be accepted. Be it by triviliasing the meaning and methods of the other side or trying to drastically alter it's framework. All that happens in these cases is argument, with neither side moving an inch and both sides claiming victory.

I have no idea what form such a reconciliation would take, and I'm not a religious enough person to make suggestions on the matter. However it would be, it would require a profound understanding and respect for both science and religion.