"i'm a secular jew, you write. my religious education did not take. i can barely remember a word of hebrew, i cannot pray. i've spent more years than i care to remember in studying mathematics and writing about the sciences. yet, as you wrote in the preface of this book, the book that follows is in some sense a defense of religious thought and sentiment. biblical verses are the least of it, a defense is needed because none has been forthcoming. the discussion has been ceded to men who regard religious belief with frivolous contempt. the books have poured from every press and differing widely in style, they are identical in message because scientific theories are true religious beliefs, must be false. from your book "the devil's delusion," atheism and scientific pretensions. and that is the thesis, that is the foundational point of your