A question with no answer, but they will anyway

The Templeton Foundation’s third heavy question in its ongoing series is Does science make a belief in God obsolete? And once again, the foundation has recruited a panel of, well, heavies, to answer.

Steven Pinker says yes, if by "science" we mean the entire enterprise of secular reason and knowledge (including history and philosophy), not just people with test tubes and white lab coats. He actually said more than that. If you want to read the rest of his response and find out what the rest of them said, go to : http://www.templeton.org/belief/ The panel includes:

Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, O.P., a Dominican friar, the Archbishop of Vienna, Austria, a Member of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Congregation for Education of the Roman Catholic Church, and was lead editor of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

William D. Phillips, a Nobel Laureate in physics, a fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute of the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy, chairman of the department of physics at Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan, and is the author of Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality.

Mary Midgley, a philosopher with a special interest in ethics, human nature, and science, and is the author of Evolution as a Religion and Science as Salvation.

Robert Sapolsky, the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biological Sciences and professor of neurology and neurological sciences at Stanford University. He is the author of Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, The Trouble with Testosterone, and A Primate's Memoir.

Christopher Hitchens, the author of God Is Not Great and the editor of The Portable Atheist.

Keith Ward, a Fellow of the British Academy, an ordained priest in the Church of England, a Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, and the author of The Big Questions in Science and Religion, Pascal's Fire: Scientific Faith and Religious Understanding, Is Religion Dangerous?, and Re-Thinking Christianity.

Victor J. Stenger, emeritus professor of physics and astronomy, University of Hawaii, adjunct professor of philosophy, University of Colorado, and the author of seven books including God: The Failed Hypothesis—How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist.

Jerome Groopman, the Recanati Professor of Medicine at Harvard and author of How Doctors Think.