Can a religious believer, a slave of superstition, legitimately participate in modern technology, which is a product of rational thought?

    It’s a limited point — it proves no point of anybody’s religious doctrine true — but it’s a point that sometimes needs to be made.   So, as further evidence of the fact that first-rate scientific competence and understanding isn’t intrinsically incompatible with religious faith, I offer the example of Charles H. Townes, who [Read More...]