[vidgamer85]

See now, I always thought it was the opposite, Santa being an analogy for God that is far more appealing to kids because he given them physical objects, be they shitty toys or not.

And yes, science IS open to new ideas or more likely, slight changes in the accepted norm over time as new things are discovered or proven. And that's what Ben Stein's docu-movie thing tried to argue, that science isn't willing to look at new ideas (ie intelligent design) because they 'think they have it all figured out'.

Obviously that's bull and Stein, while smart, needs some fine tutoring in the scientific method. Science WOULD look at intelligent design if it had a decent amount of evidence to back it up, but it doesn't, it's all just a lot of picking and choosing stuff that suits their idea best, which is not how science works, let alone common sense.