The credit crunch is particularly unsettling for those who
believed that society sits on a bedrock of rationalism. But as
PHILIP SAMPSON points out, when we succumb to blind faith, it's not
just currency that loses it value…

If you believe Richard Dawkins, science and religion are mortal
enemies. We have confidence in science because it is grounded ...
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