t is a bit rich of Dawkins and his ilk to start throwing around the term Fairy stories since we created the world which permits him to learn and study. Farsighted popes and bishops— took the fateful step that Islamic leaders had rejected. By marrying Christian theology to Aristotelian science, they committed the West to an ethic of rational enquiry that would generate a succession of scientific advances

I insist we turn it on him and continue to ask—What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? science alone can speak truth about man and his world.

I think so many scientists and especially people who study genetics (I worked in biotechnology for 8 years, it was hard to find any any atheists there) are religious because they are always struck by the fact we are all descended from Mitochondrial Eve and Y-chromosomal Adam.