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Science's scourge of believers declares his faith in DarwinBy Roger Highfield, Science Editor(Filed: 05/01/2005)Prof Richard Dawkins, the scourge of those who maintain their belief in a god, has declared that he, too, holds a belief that cannot yet be proved.In a recent letter to a national newspaper, Prof Dawkins said believers might now be disillusioned with an omnipotent being who had just drowned tens of thousands of innocent people in Asia. "My naive guess was that believers might be feeling more inclined to curse their god than pray to him."   Richard Dawkins Now the Oxford University evolutionary biologist...

January 4, 2005 God (or Not), Physics and, of Course, Love: Scientists Take a Leap hat do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" This was the question posed to scientists, futurists and other creative thinkers by John Brockman, a literary agent and publisher of Edge, a Web site devoted to science. The site asks a new question at the end of each year. Here are excerpts from the responses, to be posted Tuesday at www.edge.org. Roger SchankPsychologist and computer scientist; author, "Designing World-Class E-Learning"Irrational choices.I do not believe that people are capable of rational thought...