Religion Could Be True Only if It Didn't Exist, Reports L.A. Times

As noted already, the Los Angeles Times published a startlingly asinine op-ed by University of Virginia psychiatrist J. Anderson Thomson who "serves as a trustee of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science." ("Science and Religion: God Didn't Make Man, Man Made Gods," July 18.) Writing with medical author Clare Aukofer and citing John Lennon's "Imagine," Dr. Thomson summarizes:

In recent years scientists specializing in the mind have begun to unravel religion's "DNA....