In today’s NY Times magazine. Aren’t these questions that we should be studying at Krasnow?
Money quote:
“Q:Yet faith, by definition, means believing in something whose existence cannot be proved scientifically. If we knew for sure that God existed, it would not require a leap of faith to believe in him.
D: Isn’t it interesting that you want to take that leap? Why do you want to take that leap? Why does our craving for God persist? It may be that we need it for something. It may be that we don’t need it, and it is left over from something that we used to be. There are lots of biological possibilities.”
Dennett serves on Krasnow’s Scientific Advisory Board.
Discoverers and Discoveries 