Believers: Faith in Human Nature
By Martin Konner,
Norton, 336pp, £22/$28.95
As everyone from Teilhard de Chardin to Albert Einstein has taught us, religion and science do not need to be in conflict. Just as the greatest philosophers often reach a point where religion is the only answer, so scientific discovery eventually runs into questions whose answers are ultimately unknowable. But in recent years there has been a rise among some scientists of a militant atheism, dismissing thousands of years of history, instruction, art and belief as mere fairy tales for the feeble-minded.
