I agree. I have to restrain myself not to take a blow torch to this subject. Sigh. I prefer Science over blind faith (any day of the week) - but there are still plenty of open philosophical questions not yet answered by science. The Mind/Body problem for one.

Maybe Marcus and the Materialists will be right in the end (and I for one will be sorry for it.) But to claim we already know the answer to these still outstanding profound questions is comparable to listening to a fool ringing his bells. Although I do share some of Marcus Judd's sentiments in regard to a now 2000 year old religion, I don't share his nihilistic certainty that we simply live in a mechanical clock world and that's that. We (as in Science and Human Philosophy) just don't know yet.