And I yield back whatever we have left. After I read that, I had to take a minute to actually swallow the fact that these kinds of things go on in the United States House of Representatives. While recently perusing the net for information and readings on science and religion, I came across an article that mentioned your name and some comments that you made. It disturbs me that someone that sits on the House Science Committee would give an emotional, slandering, anti-scientific statement. You seem to be misunderstanding the whole point of science.
Science seeks to understand the universe through rationality, reason, and skepticism.
Science does not have all the answers, but it seeks to find them in a self-correcting manner. Religion seems to be making the very claim that you deem ludicrous, by claiming that the universe came from the hand of an all-powerful god that we can never understand, and for which there is not a shred of scientific evidence. Your perception of scientists seems to be based more on comic books than reality. Your proposal of the experiment to put scientists in a foxhole and drop bombs on them seems like a personal attack on science. Stupid remarks reduce your debate to mere mudslinging, and I am ashamed that a United States Representative would say the things that you said.