Damme he makes me proud to be British. He’s scientifically wrong on two counts. Religion works as its probable etymology says; it binds. It obviously has survival value or is collateral for good and ill that goes with our phenomenal evolutionary success. Dickie seems to have missed out on the greatest British contributor to philosophy, David Hume, with his ‘reason is and ought to be the slave of the passions’, which is genetic. Evolved. Religion, our sense of the sacred, is a passion issue. His second scientific error is to correlate 9 11 with religion. It is to do, above all, with injustice. With sin. Unrighteousness. Lack of universal social justice, equality of outcome. How he can be blinded to that, I don’t know. Well I do. He’s too rational. He places rationality above righteousness. Which leads to his third error - not scientific, but moral, eusocial… biological… ohh it IS scientific! - love your enemies.