A New Kind of Religious Zeal

I find it quite revealing that so many today hold a kind of religious zeal concerning certain scientific speculations such as global warming and evolution. There is the fierce dogmatism and loyalty to a creed that makes me almost believe that the modern secularist would even willingly be martyred for such scientific conjectures. I guess when one has abandoned the religious creed one must substitute the creed of the culture and hold it as if it too promised something like heaven.