Commentary: Our best guesses help us fill in our blind spots

Gregory Clark seems to make us uncomfortable, and for that I congratulate him. The responses to his frequent op-ed pieces on religion and belief are always interesting, but no more so than Clark and his pointed, bare-fisted and often troubling articles.I really don’t understand the problem. He has his beliefs. And, being a scientist and a humanist and a nonbeliever, his beliefs, theories, philosophies and ideas are also often just unproven guesses. Assumptions in science are often part of