DA wrote:
"When Christians, Jews, Moslems, Hindu, and Animist discuss it ... they at least agree on what it is. Not whether it exists, mind you, but on what it is."

Yes, that's the religious thorn in the side of science, isn't it. It's not character of the individual Christian (for example). That's very often impeccable. It's the subversion of their reason to dogma of the institution, and the dependence on an inflexible model of the universe as part of that dogma - the rest is history.

"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once" - John Wheeler