A common lament which I have heard from the scientific community is that, in the words of Dr Lawrence Krauss--as cited by Professor Scott Carson--"U. S. adults are less willing to accept evolution and the big bang as factual than adults in other industrial countries." Such a lament--so common amongst the "scientific community" (which roughly includes scientists, philosophers of science, and a crowd of what can only be called scientistic groupies) in the States--generally centers on these two particular theories and the opposition they receive from "religion," by which is largely meant Christians in general and the fundamentalist or evangelical types of Christians in particular. The lament is squarely pointed, first at the "young earth theorists" (anybody who believes that the universe is less than billions of years old), and secondly (more broadly) at the "Intelligent Design" proponents (anybody who suggests that no theory of non-theistic evolution can explain all of the intricate details of life in its varied forms today). Although I am neither a young-earth creationist nor an intelligent Design proponent, I can at the same time find some fault with the worldview which Dr Krauss pines for.