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

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.

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.

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

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.