@tim:
We will eventually have to decide what we are (versus what we could be). In the absence of my proposal for such a default position, many visitors and old-timers will be left with only one impotent impression: that we exist only to allow atheists to attempt to convince creationists that there is no God.
This point is doubly vexed:
1] it is much easier to convince a creationist that God’s design includes evolution, and
2] it puts us squarely in opposition to the greater majority of our audience who like to see God as the master engineer of Evolution.
As to your discomfort with “groupthink”, I am amused. Right now PS suffers from the toxic polarization that the most useful position to take against I.D. is that there is no divine intelligence. This is a terrible PR cul de sac! We are arguing against every Christmas, Easter, and even against Passover and Chanakuh!