Letters to the Editor
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can't we agree to disagree?
Seems like there isn't enough evidence on either side for a conviction! It bothers me that many of the people using science to back their claim to there (essentially) being no god/supernatural force often start out with such a strong bias that they are almost certainally BOUND to find what they are looking for. The same is true of the 'believers' camp, but that's been pointed out for years.
Making a scientific argument to support your own personally held beliefs and biases will almost always lead to a flawed 'expirament' that suprise suprise, supports what you allready 'knew' to be 'fact'.
Many aspects of religion are total bunk, and have been shown to be so. However the big questions - is there a god, what is the purpose of life, is there an afterlife - remain valid questions that science has failed to adequately rule on one way or the other.
I say, keep looking - to both the aethists and the god-camp.
You never know... maybe in the future we'll find a way to artifically create the 'hard wiring' that the religious call a 'soul' and save it... its not impossible. Nothing is.
I think the picture is just too big for a book like Wolpert's to wrap up into a neat little box.