“By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.”
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.
If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.