Our Fish vs. Their Fish

I couldn't pass this one up.  In preparing yesterday's post on the idea of a reverse God-of-the-gaps, I came across this image (here) of the Christian fish symbol (an ancient symbol from Greek for fish, ichthys, which was taken to stand for "Jesus Christ, God's Son, Saviour."), labelled as "Truth," eating the Darwinian fish parody of the Christian fish.  The image beautifully images the current war going on between religion-ism and science-ism, a subset of the larger culture war engulfing our nation.  Somewhere on line there is probably a Darwin fish eating the Christian fish.

One side labels itself "Truth" and eats (destroys, consumes) the other.  There's no room for dialogue, no place for the old-fashioned concept of a market place of ideas—just warfare between two ideologies masking themselves as "true" religion and "true" science.  We really do need to find another way.  I guess that's the point.  Religion is about faith.  Science is about investigation.  Neither is inherently an ideology, but protagonists on both sides have turned them into battlefield ideologies.  And the rule is that war always has unintended consequences, rarely good.  We need another way.