What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?

I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.

Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool - and how important - their work really is.

In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.

C.S. Lewis had a big influence on me in this spiritual realm - this sort of sense of longing. A longing for a knowledge that is just outside of our reach, a knowledge for a spiritual connection.

People who are in a position of finding out that they're at risk for some illness, whether it's breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid to get that information - even though it might be useful to them - because of fears that they'll lose their health insurance or their job.

Are we using science in ways that it wasn't intended to, in which case we should be a little careful, or are we using faith in ways that faith wasn't really designed for? There are certain questions that are better answered by one approach than the other, and if you start mixing that up, then you end up in ... conflict.