Lawrence Krauss
IT IS the eve of the US presidential election, and the dissonance between science and politics has never been greater.
Last month, I spoke at at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. I was reminded of a discussion I had with Richard Dawkins about science and religion at the two years ago. It blossomed into that Dawkins and I wrote for Scientific American.
In it I argued: “Faith lies in the realm of human activity that has little to do with reason… For most people religion is one way of making sense of an irrational world, a…



