GLB, it is quite interesting that you so wrongly accuse me of prejudice and I am quick to say that I am approaching the topic in an open-minded manner and concede that there are two possibilities.  1) the evolution of life is natural, random and without purpose 2) life is designed, purposeful and caused by a Creator.  I feel that science reveals that life is designed.  It would be worthwhile to hear from you and others that you can also concede that the majority of Americans might be correct and your opposition might be those with the better truth.  If you have not prejudiced the question, it would be interesting to hear what scientific understanding has convinced you that the universe and life on this planet came about as a pure product of luck and natural processes.  In my experience, many people who buy into the party line concerning the "Darwinian truths" accept it only because they cannot bring themselves to even consider another point of view. 

As for Galileo, you are surely poorly informed and offensive.   Until very recent times, science in the West was almost entirely the product of religious men in search of God's law in nature.  From our point of view as secular Americans, we should all tip our hats to the fact that the scientific method and all basic discoveries that still inform our sciences today came from what could be called Bible 'fundamentalists' and God thumpers.  You can happily join with the atheists of today but it is not good faith to try to somehow spin the great scientists of our past who used the belief in a Creator as their fundamental assumption into men who were somehow not religiously inspired.  For Galileo, the revelation that God's laws were understandable by men, through mathematics, was embraced.  In our day, the God of elegance is replaced (in the eyes of some) by the god of necessity and chance.

This change came about in SPITE of and not because of any scientific discoveries.  Almost all recent discoveries point to the complexity and elegance of the natural world.

I challenge you to have more than an opinion.  Please seek to have an informed one that is based on an investigation of the evidence and try not to be persuaded by those who seek to bully and demonize others in their false pride and prejudice.