I'm The Ted Bundy Of String Theory.

The Moral Landscape Is The Framework I Use For Thinking About Questions Of Morality And Human Values In Universal Terms.

Moderates Want Their Faith Respected. They Don't Want Faith Itself Criticized, And Yet Faith Itself Is What Is Bringing Us All This - This Lunacy.

Advance Warning Of Katrina's Path Was Wrested From Mute Nature By Meteorological Calculations And Satellite Imagery. God Told No One Of His Plans. Had The Residents Of New Orleans Been Content To Rely On The Beneficence Of God, They Wouldn't Have Known That A Killer Hurricane Was Bearing Down Upon Them Until They Felt The First Gusts Of Wind On Their Faces. And Yet, As Will Come As No Surprise To You, A Poll Conducted By The Washington Post Found That 80 Percent Of Katrina's Survivors Claim That The Event Only Strengthened Their Faith In God.

It Is Rather More Noble To Help People Purely Out Of Concern For Their Suffering Than It Is To Help Them Because You Think The Creator Of The Universe Wants You To Do It, Or Will Reward You For Doing It, Or Will Punish You For Not Doing It. The Problem With This Linkage Between Religion And Morality Is That It Gives People Bad Reasons To Help Other Human Beings When Good Reasons Are Available.

The Problem Of Human Suffering Is Never Too Much Rational Thinking, Or Too High A Demand For Evidence. But The Solutions Are. ... Reason Is Nothing Less Than The Guardian Of Love.