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Will reason or unreason prevail?

By Lawrence Krauss

29 October 2008

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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…

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