- An Shan sounds like a pantheist (sometimes I feel some pantheist traits in myself too), I wouldn't argue with you on what you have said, yet I will have to say it's too bad those Discovery Institute people probably don't think in your way. Their intention is clear - to resurrect the long-dead Creationism in the scientific world by denying evolution all together. They label themselves "conservatives", this alone can turn me off for it reminds me of those self-righteous Christian rightist hardliners.
I understand your frustration over today's scientific research ... today science has gone too far along a materialist road and has somehow lost the spiritual inspiration that brought us wonderful discoveries a few centuries ago, and many sicence workers have become rather narrow-minded ... But science is science, it's an honest enterprise with the empirical spirit, thus it should calmly shrug off any influence from the thoughts/hypotheses of the religion side (it may be inspired by some ideas of these hypotheses, yet a simple acceptance is not acceptable), and focus on discovering things not yet known to us on its own.
adagio