Could it be that the supposed rift between faith and reason is illusory, and that science and religion ? even atheism itself ? are overlapping expressions of the primacy of faith in all human activity?

Rick Wingrove, co-founder of the 300-member Beltway Atheists, speaks of the presumed antithetical relationship between science and religion. “There is a dichotomy; they are polar opposites,” he said. “We don?t say, ?We believe.? We say, ?We think.? ”