I am only opening this up for an exchange of ideas.

The question is 'Why Do Smart People Believe Weird Things?" I am currently reading a book by this name, by Michael Shermer,
PhD. He is the founding publisher of Skeptic Magazine, the director of the Skeptics Society, the host of the Skeptics Lecture series at Caltech,and a contributing editor of and a monthly columnist for Scientific American. He is the author of 'How We Believe: The Search for God in an age of Science', 'Denying History', and 'The Borderlands of Science'.

In his book he states:
Dr. Wm. Dembski, PhD. in Mathmatics from the University of Chicago, PhD. Philosophy, Univ. of IL.@ Chicago,and a Masters of
Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Dembski wrote a book, 'Design Inference' (1998, Cambridge University Press) In his book (and his full-time occupation as a research fellow for the Center for the Renewal Science and Culture @ Discovery Institute in Seattle) is to show that science proves Gods' existence.

Hugh Ross, PhD. in Astronomy, Univ. of Toronto(he also had a position as a research fellow @ Caltech) before founding 'Reasons To Believe". His purpose is to provide Christians with scientific reasons for their faith.

Frank Tipler is a professor of theoretical mathmatics @ Tulane Univ.and one of the worlds' leading cosmologists and global general relavists. He enjoys a close friendship with Stephen Hawking ,Roger Penrose, and Kip Thorne. He has published hundreds of technical papers in leading physics journals. He wrote the book 'The Physics of Immortality: Modern Cosmology, God and the Resurrection of the Dead'. In this book he claims to prove (with no fewer than 122 pages of mathmatical equations and physics formulas in an 'Appendix for Scientists') that God exists, the afterlife is real and we will all be resurrected in the far future through a super computer with a memory large enough to re-create a reality virtually indistinguishable from our own.

Any ideas?