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...dialogue between Dawkins and Collins, it was the atheistic rational scientist, Dawkins, who literally and figuratively had the final word. Religion is truly man's ineffectual and limited way of trying to explain and understand God. As Dawkins explains, if there is a God, it would be a lot bigger and more incomprehensible than anything any religion has to offer and more than even science can explain. God is beyond religion, beyond laws and beyond science. As a practicing Catholic with some faith and a strong belief in logical reason, I thank you, Richard, for your rational and scientific description...
...meeting closed with a published statement expressing the "serious concerns" of the other governments represented with what had happened - and a requirement that Britain explain itself more fully, this time in writing, before another meeting in mid- March. The British government won't comment on what happened in Paris , but Attorney General Lord Goldsmith told Parliament that dropping the case "does not mean that we are backing off in any way from our commitment to tackling international corruption...
...government is allowed to plead that reasons of national security excuse it from its obligations, any international consensus on bribery would quickly disappear. "What happened with the U.K. - that a country has to explain itself and justify what it is doing internally - would have been impossible some years back," says Mark Pieth, a Swiss law professor who chairs the o.e.c.d. working group. Pieth says he wants Britain to have a fair hearing, but he worries that, if there has been a breach, the convention itself would be "squarely at risk...
...years ago you claimed that "everyone is a Calvinist in praying before surgery." Can you explain that...
...explain the nature of your prayer at that point...