The
New York Times: Maybe the pivotal moment came when Steven
Weinberg, a Nobel laureate in physics, warned that "the world
needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief,"
or when a Nobelist in chemistry, Sir Harold Kroto, called for
the John Templeton Foundation to give its next $1.5 million
prize for "progress in spiritual discoveries" to an atheist
âmdash; Richard Dawkins, the Oxford
evolutionary biologist whose book "The God Delusion" is a
national best-seller.
