As I read The Atheist's Guide to Reality by Alex Rosenberg I am reminded that a worldview, any worldview, needs two components - a good story and some presuppositions. Rosenberg aptly co-opts physics and biology for his own worldview. Newtonian physics, for Rosenberg, is what one needs to provide a constitutive account of reality, everything is made of force and stuff ("bosons" and "fermions"). Physics explains all reality, tells us what all of reality is made of, and is almost complete in its attempt to comprehensively describe how everything relates to everything else. Presuppositions done. Now for a good yarn, a story that tells us how we got to where we are. That, for Rosenberg, is found in the biology department. The story teller is Charles Darwin and the yarn is a ripping good one. It is a tale of adaptation, species after species emerging through natural selection. Where we are now is a result of an unguided process of change, a gradual amazing emergen...