Is religion a failed attempt at scientific explanation?

    Here’s a passage from Alister McGrath, The Passionate Intellect: Christian Faith and the Discipleship of the Mind (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2010).  McGrath is a former atheist, now an Anglican priest, who holds three Oxford doctorates — in molecular biophysics, theology, and intellectual history.  In this passage, he cites the very prominent British […]