Should you believe in a God?  All the discord and vitriol in our culture boils down to how you would answer.  Border walls, gay marriage, abortion, national defense, school choice -- where you stand on these issues and the myriad others comprising our daily tussle is for the most part defined by how you answer this question.  Your answer, yeah or nay, draws a very hard line.  The professional philosopher John G. Messerly begins with this question in his recent Salon piece, “Religion's smart-people problem: The shaky intellectual foundations of absolute faith.” Dr. Messerly’s answer to the question he poses is not surprisingly a resounding no.  He begins establishing the foundation for his argument by citing statistics showing only 14% of professional philosophers and a mere 7% of members of the National Academy of Sciences hold any religious beliefs.  Unlike earlier ages when belief in a Creator was overwhelmingly accepted,...(Read Full Article)