Hacking God : In the end most inventions are not used for their intended purpose.

Stuart Kauffman: Reinventing the Sacred

Unfortunately he is a bit dry, but he could be our Ralph Nader in the battle against Reductionism.

Unlike Dawkins, who often comes off pretty fundamentalist in his own way, Kauffman is truly radical, in that his brand of atheism has a place for awe and respect for the cosmic. As a result, thoughtful theist holdouts won't have to go cold turkey when they realize that God (like everything else) is a metaphor. And we of a scientific bent can uncloset our pagan urges and guiltlessly follow magic as well as logic.

Our reverence of The Sacred need not be thrown out with the holy bath water if it is recognized as a mental tool that can be hacked.