same view, much to Dawkins’ irritation, is found in Sir Martin Rees’ admirable Cosmic Habitat, which (entirely reasonably) points out that some ultimate questions ‘lie beyond science’.3 As Rees is the President of the Royal Society, which brings together Britain’s leading scientists, his comments deserve careful and critical attention. The fundamental issue confronting the sciences is how to make sense of a highly complex, multifaceted, multilayered reality. This fundamental question in human knowledge