This book may have some valuable insights into the true nature of religion, but unfortunately I will never discover them as I gave up reading the book half way through. I'm sorry, but as a typical, curious, yet well-informed reader, I found this book overly dry and pedantic. It asks lots of cosmic questions like "why does religion matter so much?", and "why does religion exist in the face of more efficient ways of looking at the universe?" and does a good job of knocking some of the existing explanations. Then the author touts that he has found an explanation, and a scientific one at that. Unfortunately, he gives no immediate inkling as to what this explanation may be like other than… Read more
