look iZen, i don't disagree with a lot of your statements. just with the way you have stated them as absolutes. just playing the devil here, i could turn each of your statement around and still retain some appeal, for example: "Religious fundamentalism possess greatest threat to rational minds from all corners of the planet." -> Radical extremists are the greatest threat to universal religious values like peace, love and compassion. "Absolute conservative mindset is the branch of that extremism blocking the natural roads of evolution." -> Radical extremists are bastardizing the concept of evolution - evolution, unlike some revolution, does not and should not flow from the barrel of the gun. etc. The point is that it is easy to resort to label someone we don't agree with as conservative or religious zealot or this or that, but those are vacuos words. i think our, yours and mine, interests will be better served by just dealing with the ideas and doing away with the labels. after all, it is entirely possible for me to be extremely religious and a great believer of evolution at the same time!