Why ?
John: (2) Actually, for most people, disbelief in God is more speculative, i.e. more counterintuitively speculative, than belief in God.>>
Why ? Believing in nothing is more speculative than believing in something you cannot observe ?
John: (3) I tend to agree on your point of not mixing science and religion, but this is only because it seems pretty obvious to me that science is pragmatic as much as alethic, and because it methodologically isn't capable of dealing with metaphysics very well. >>
Nor meant to deal with that which cannot be observed.
John: Nonetheless, religion and science are relevant to each other in a
variety of ways, and can usefully or otherwise (YEC/evolution, e.g.) overlap
on the boundaries.>>
In my opinion that is what causes the problems for the YEC'ers, that they have to mix science with what they interpret their faith tells them, even if science is clearly contradicting.