"And?" Colin asks, blinking. "Science isn't prejudiced. It's simply how things work. From the finest saint to the worst tyrant, science plays no favorites. For that matter, one man's proper use of science is another man's heresy."

He pauses, and he smirks. "I'm sure even you must know of mobs hunting down people who do things they don't agree with, tormenting them until they change their ways," he says. "Or killing them when they don't. Barbarism is fairly common when someone doesn't agree with something."