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We Want To Be Open-minded Enough To Accept Radial New Ideas When They Occasionally Come Along, But We Don't Want To Be So Open-minded That Our Brains Fall Out.

We Do Not Just Blindly Concede Control To Authorities; Instead We Follow The Cues Provided By Our Moral Communities On How Best To Behave.

How Can We Find Spiritual Meaning In A Scientific Worldview? Spirituality Is A Way Of Being In The World, A Sense Of One’s Place In The Cosmos, A Relationship To That Which Extends Beyond Oneself. . . . Does Scientific Explanation Of The World Diminish Its Spiritual Beauty? I Think Not. Science And Spirituality Are Complementary, Not Conflicting; Additive, Not Detractive. Anything That Generates A Sense Of Awe May Be A Source Of Spirituality. Science Does This In Spades. (158-159)

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

If Spirituality Is The Sense Of Awe And Humility In The Face Of The Creation, What Could Be More Awesome And Humbling Than The Deep Space Discovered By Hubble And The Cosmologists, And The Deep Time Discovered By Darwin And The Evolutionists.