What he said.

This letter to the editor on evolution and intelligent design is as clear and succinct a statement of my opinion as I could wish. There's a lot of hypocrisy among scientists. If you're honest, you don't rule out anything you can't disprove. It seems that quantum mechanics is as close to supernatural as anything else I can think of, but it still doesn't explain everything. Science is bumping up against infinity as the solution to its equations. If seems kind of arrogant then to suggest that there isn't any intelligence greater than ours at work in the universe.

I recognize that a lot of scientific hostility is based on an understanding of God as some kind of magician unbound by the laws of nature. But they must recognize the truth that Arthur C. Clarke stated, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magick." Pre-scientific societies resorted to magical explanations for things they couldn't figure out, but they didn't always give up on rationality. We have gone to the opposite extreme, but I don't think we should give up on faith, because science doesn't give us any explanation for why morality is moral. It's been struggling to come up with a theory for altruism conferring an evolutionary advantage, but it doesn't really explain why we're pulled in both directions. Why is it our impulses are selfish, cruel and pleasure seeking, but we feel guilt for obeying them. You could say that guilt is the product of socialization, as it is in part. But why does every society on earth have standards of good and bad? And why do people struggle with those standards? Science just doesn't cut it when it comes to giving us guidance for how to be happy.