[MD] Dawkins quotes RMP on religion.

[Krimel]

> [Krimel]
> Actually, it suggests that when presented with options but no possibility 
> of resolving them we should suspend judgment or unask the question.

[Platt]
"No possibility" if you subscribe to the ideology of scientific 
rationalism. But many of us believe there is rationality beyond the 
scientific method, a rationality that, for example, takes into account 
values. 

[Krimel]
I should have said "no possibility of resolving them through experience or
reason." Excuse me, I thought it was implied. As I have tried to make clear
to Ham, questions and doubts may be resolved in any number of ways from warm
fuzzy feelings to flipping coins. I am simply saying that it is disingenuous
to throw out fallacy and hot air and pretend they are reasonable.
  
Logic and mathematics are beyond the scientific method so I suppose I agree
that there is much outside of the scientific method. Still the question is
not so much what convinces one person to believe something but why should
others believe it as well. That is the question Russell was addressing.