Contents

– Preface –

ix

– 1  Humanity: Neither God’s Work nor a

Piece of Nature –

1

– 2  On Being Thanked by a Paper Bag –

25

– 3  How on Earth Can We Be Free? –

49

– 4  Lord Howe’s Wicked Dream: A Report from an Undeveloping Country –

92

– 5  ‘All Is Number’: Mathematics, Reality and the Madness of Max Tegmark –

149

– 6  God and Eternity for Infidels –

180