David Gelernter Quotes
We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.
Gelernter, David. Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion. Doubleday, 2007.
Some scientists are religious believers. Many are not. However, relatively few hold the position that Dawkins does that religion is and has been an evil force in the world. These argue that religions and religious factionalism has caused as many deaths as epidemics and pandemics and is an evil for society. While that argument has been historically true in much of the world, religious conflict deaths has actually decreased in frequency over the last century and may be at a world-wise low as a percentage of the world population. With the exception of Islamic fundamentalist extremism, there is no religious group that advocates religious violence and has a majority of any country. Moderate Muslims have never before been in greater numbers, so it can be argued that modern society and most religions have been reforming themselves over the years.
David Hillel Gelernter is an American computer scientist, artist, and writer. He is a professor of computer science at Yale University.
