The Whole Point Of Faith,

Religious Faith Depends On A Host Of Social, Psychological And Emotional Factors That Have Little Or Nothing To Do With Probabilities, Evidence And Logic.

Science Is The Best Tool Ever Devised For Understanding How The World Works.

As Karl Marx Once Noted: 'hegel Remarks Somewhere That All Great, World-historical Facts And Personages Occur, As It Were, Twice. He Forgot To Add: The First Time As Tragedy, The Second As Farce.' William Jennings Bryan And The Scopes Trial Was A Tragedy. The Creationists And Intelligent Design Theorists Are A Farce.

In The Long Run, It Is Better To Understand The Way The World Really Is Rather Than How We Would Like It To Be.

Since Humans Are By Nature Tribal, The Overall Goal Is To Expand The Concept Of The Tribe To Include All Members Of The Species, In A Global Free Society.