True believers aren't about to be seduced by the facts.

The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

True believers aren't about to be seduced by the facts.

I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned to attend included a large number of avowed atheists.

Science not only hasn't found God, it isn't even looking for him.

One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.

For most cosmologists, a supernatural God is an unnecessary hypothesis. For most Americans, He is an unassailable fact. The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.