SCIENCE: THE OPIATE OF THE MASSES

Fred Reed explains why good questions are better than bad answers:

I often meet a—to me—curious sort of fellow who simply cannot comprehend what religion might be about. He is puzzled as distinct from contemptuous or haughty. He genuinely sees no difference between religious faith and believing that the earth is flat. He is like a congenitally deaf man watching a symphony orchestra: with all the good will in the world he doesn’t see the profit in all that sawing with bows and blowing into things.

But it is science, Reed discovers, that in fact fails to tell us anything.