You have a very kindly way of thinking about other posters. I hope micro finds himself a posting home in which he is happy. It isn't going to be here, of course.
ps I enjoyed those evolution-constitutional discussions a great deal!
Do you know anything about the council of Nicaea in 325? For me, that was the cork-stopper at the beginning of the middle ages which resulted in the explosion of observational science and the origin of the Enlightenment at the other end.
How homo ousion gave birth to Galileo, eventually. Discuss.
One other thing I don't think anyone has mentioned in the political discussion.
If, as Bush and McCain argue (and correctly, I think), that this period of history is defined by a battle of ideas between freedom and fundamentalist Islam, who better to represent the West than the most persuasive speaker since Churchill.