Our First Guest Blogger - Lawrence Krauss

After the incredible response to two of our recent posts (Krauss on Intelligent Design, Religion (and String Theory); and From the Sublime to the Ridiculous), Sean, JoAnne, Clifford, Risa and I asked Lawrence Krauss if he would be interested in submitting a post summarizing his views on the issues raised regarding string theory, religion, and the popularization of science. Lawrence is an extremely well regarded member of the physics community, whose research, popular writings and remarkable efforts to defend science against pseudoscience and political distortion have earned the respect of all of us. We were therefore delighted when Lawrence agreed to make time to do this and we welcome him as Cosmic Variance's first guest blogger. We look forward to a high level of discussion regarding this post and, since it might need saying explicitly - keep it polite please folks! Here is Lawrence's post. __________________________ The contributors asked me ...