5/4/01

What exciting progress is being made by scientists in learning who
and what we humans are, as exemplified in your report "Religion and
the Brain!" And what ignorance is shown by your journalist who wrote the article and another whose "Faith is more than a feeling" commentary following it!

Sharon Begley editorializing at the end of the report writes: "...whether our brain wiring creates God, or whether God created our brain wiring. Which you believe is, in the end, a matter of faith." Kenneth Woodward says: "...these emotions have nothing to do with how well we communicate with God," and "To suggest that the brain is the only source of our experiences...ignoring...important factors...not to mention the operation of divine grace." Talking back and forth with the supernatural? What in the world is "divine grace?"

Just a minute! What's faith got to do with science? Faith, by definition, is unquestioning belief, while science is the process of questioning everything in a search for truth.

Good report! Wrong reporters!

Harry Greenberger, President of New Orleans Secular Humanist Assn.

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