We're all talking about the same thing, whether it's religious people or New Age spiritual people or Buddhists or scientists. We're all talking about having a sense of awe and wonder at something grander than ourselves.

Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance.

Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at the very point where it is most needed. If Intelligent Design is really a science, then the burden is on its scientists to discover the mechanisms used by the Intelligent Designer. (80)

There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.