From JOHN WORLEY
So religion is not just a powerful mental aberration, but mankind’s
secret and most powerful survival weapon. Anthropologists have clearly misidentified
my species, we’re not H. sapiens but H. credens!
But we who would be wise can surely borrow survival skills from the
world’s more successful religions. Fanaticism and missionary zeal for a
start. Belief that the god of science will honour and reward those who
work in its cause. Someone (just like Moses or Joseph Smith) must discover
some reasonable commandments for us all to preach to others. We need a priesthood
(the Royal Society will do for now), some stirring songs, and a place where
the faithful can be whipped into a frenzy of reasonableness. Can anything
be developed, I wonder, out of the British Association for the Advancement
of Science?
John Worley Havant, Hampshire
