I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because in a way both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed but their motivation is the same the wellspring is the same in both cases.
Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.