To return to Lord Sacks: his book, according to Andrew Marr \u201d\u201c not an oracle, admittedly, but still a good barometer of liberal taste \u201d\u201c is \u201cthe most persuasive argument for religious belief I have ever read.\u201d\u009d Sacks argues, not that Dawkins is the \u201clatest pub bore\u201d\u009d but that questions of religion and science concern different hemispheres of the brain: science (the left hemisphere) \u201ctakes things apart to see how they work\u201d\u009d; religion (the right hemisphere) \u201cputs things together to see what they mean\u201d\u009d; both activities are vital.<\/p>\n
Come to think of it, it is a great pity that the Chief Rabbi can\u2019t, for obvious reasons, apply for the job of being the next Archbishop of Canterbury: he is an intellectual \u201d\u201c but with a gift for clear exposition; he believes in God, marriage, the family; he is conciliatory rather than divisive; and from his own religious and historical perspective he sees the marginalisation of faith for what it is.<\/p>\n