On politics.  Invoke science and you gain advantage.  It does  not matter if the argument is valid, much less true. Mostly, the  arguments are so complex that few can question the findings.   For  some interest groups, everything, that is every single thing in life,  is political.  Family, industry, and religion issues, all are political.  Let me note the very far left believes exactly this.  For them, all is politics.   They say, "We  must have faith in our leaders."  This is the mantra of the unthinking  servant to the master. This gives the masters license to the excesses of  power. The truth is maligned and distorted to the lessons of the  masters, toward their control and containment of all thought.   On God.   Can  there be a unified theory of religion and science?  This has been  debated forever.  What is stunning is that no substantive progress has  been made. Let me fill in a few details.   The god debate never  ends.  It probably never will....
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