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As Many Critics Of Religion Have Pointed Out, The Notion Of A Creator Poses An Immediate Problem Of An Infinite Regress. If God Created The Universe, What Created God? To Say That God, By Definition, Is Uncreated Simply Begs The Question. Any Being Capable Of Creating A Complex World Promises To Be Very Complex Himself. As The Biologist Richard Dawkins Has Observed Repeatedly, The Only Natural Process We Know Of That Could Produce A Being Capable Of Designing Things Is Evolution.

The Core Of Science Is Not A Mathematical Modeling--it Is Intellectual Honesty. It Is A Willingness To Have Our Certainties About The World Constrained By Good Evidence And Good Argument.

I Am One Of The Few People I Know Of Who Has Argued In Print That Torture May Be An Ethical Necessity In Our War On Terror.

The Science Of Morality Is About Maximizing Psychological And Social Health. It's Really No More Inflammatory Than That.

A True Spiritual Practitioner Is Someone Who Has Discovered That It Is Possible To Be At Ease In The World For No Reason, If Only For A Few Moments At A Time, And That Such Ease Is Synonymous With Transcending The Apparent Boundaries Of The Self.