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AMONG THE ODDEST bedevilers of our time are the eminent scientists who use their heaped-up credentials, achievements, and awards as pedestals from which to foretell the future and pronounce upon the ultimate questions of life and religion. One of the most recent of these is Steven Weinberg's essay "Without God" in The New York Review of Books for September 25, 2008.
The oddity of these ventures, of which Professor Weinberg's is fairly typical, is in their ready-and, it seems to me, their thoughtless-abandonment of scientific rigor and methodology. For example, despite his protest that he does not want "to try to talk anyone out of their [sic] religion," Prof. Weinberg sets forth an elaborate argument for the nonexistence of God, an argument obviously meant to be persuasive but one that is based entirely on opinion.