If spirituality is the sense of awe and humility in the face of the creation, what could be more awesome and humbling than the deep space discovered by Hubble and the cosmologists, and the deep time discovered by Darwin and the evolutionists.

Are science and religion compatible? It's like, are science and plumbing compatible? They're just two different things.

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life-yet more jargon for 'God did it.' ... Notice that they have no interest in replacing evolution with native American creation myths or including the Code of Hammarabi alongside the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable altogether.