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The Believer

"The book was "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis. And within the first three pages, I realized that my arguments against faith were those of a schoolboy."

Francis Collins -- head of the Human Genome Project -- discusses his conversion to evangelical Christianity, why scientists do not need to be atheists, and what C.S. Lewis has to do with it.

http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/08/07/collins/index.html

The VR Hypothesis

Some scientist in New Zealand is saying that physicists should seriously explore the idea that the universe is a giant virtual reality simulation. Apparently this idea goes some way to explaining philosophical issues with the big bang and tensions between Newtonian and quantum physics.

Seems Gary Larson had the same idea...

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2008/01/vr-hypothesis.html

Religious belief amongst scientists

"A recent survey of religious belief amongst scientists in the United States (published in..Nature) showed that forty percent of scientists asserted a personal belief in a personal God-almost exactly the same percentage as when a similar survey was published in 1916." | Kirsten Birkett, Unnatural Enemies - An Introduction to science and christianity. ISBN 1 876326 01 8