Anyone Who Says He Knows God's Intention

In The Information Society, Nobody Thinks. We Expect To Banish Paper, But We Actually Banish Thought.

In The End, Science Offers Us The Only Way Out Of Politics. And If We Allow Science To Become Politicized, Then We Are Lost. We Will Enter The Internet Version Of The Dark Ages, An Era Of Shifting Fears And Wild Prejudices, Transmitted To People Who Don't Know Any Better.

The Past History Of Human Belief Is A Cautionary Tale. We Have Killed Thousands Of Our Fellow Human Beings Because We Believed They Had Signed A Contract With The Devil, And Had Become Witches. We Still Kill More Than A Thousand People Each Year For Witchcraft. In My View, There Is Only One Hope For Humankind To Emerge From What Carl Sagan Called "the Demon-haunted World" Of Our Past. That Hope Is Science.

Today, One Of The Most Powerful Religions In The Western World Is Environmentalism. Environmentalism Seems To Be The Religion Of Choice For Urban Atheists.

The Planet Has Survived Everything, In Its Time. It Will Certainly Survive Us.