Reasons not to be anti-science (i.e., "plain ol'" science without all the modern philosophical underpinnings of Science as Modern Religion)

This posting is going to get longer and evolve. For now, I refer you to the worthy blog, http://www.reasons.org, Reasons to Believe, Bridging the Gap between Science and Faith.

To jump in somewhere in the middle of a really old debate, I'll say first that in my formative years my parents told me that scientists made up the evidence for the earlier existence of dinosaurs…that they never existed. What do you think? More later.