Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.