The major trait that links those who have acted to destroy American society is hubris.

When I went off to college, I was not religiously observant. I never denied my Judaism, and I did the minimum, like fast on Yom Kippur and eat matzah during Passover. As I did my research first for a bachelor's degree and later for a Ph.D., both in biochemistry, I came to an inescapable conclusion. I am including a link here to a poster that used to hang in my apartment in Madison. It was put out by the Boehringer-Mannheim Company. It shows the biochemical pathways that were known at that time. I suggest you look at it. While you do not need to know the names of enzymes doing the reactions or the specific pathways listed, you probably will come away with one conclusion: what goes on in our cells is extremely complex. There are thousands of enzymes performing various necessary reactions to keep us healthy and functional. And what I concluded during my doctoral work was that there are two possibilities: it just happened naturally or I was peeking into the handiwork of God.

While some may try to invoke bacteria from outer space or some such thing as being the source of life on Earth, I think it fair that one can either choose a completely God-free path of material somehow appearing, making a transition from lifeless chemicals into something living, and then that living thing developing and evolving into all of the species in the world, or you can say that God created it all. It was actually the science that pushed me towards religious observance. When one looks at the incredible perfection of biological structure-function relationships,........

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