We vote for people to represent us - not to represent the Lord

A by-product of having scientifically illiterate parliamentarians is that scientific researchers have to beg for funding.

Finally – let us move to get rid of a silly ritual

When a parliamentary session opens, the prime minister leads with the Lord’s Prayer. In this building which is the product of awesome technology arising out of discoveries in pure science, the members can be heard reciting an ancient writing in the hope that some ethereal being is listening.

You can have no thought or feeling unless millions of particles move in your body. They might be molecules, atoms or sub-atomic particles such as electrons. While the parliamentarians may not know it, their praying is an appeal that God will move particles around in their brains in such a way that good decisions will be made.

The sole reason that we have material existence is that the interplay of the physical laws remain absolutely inviolate. It is all the rules obeyed exactly - or it is nothing. This is the essence of reality. It is the holy tabernacle of physics.

If the creator was to stick a metaphorical finger into the mechanism and move particles in a politician’s brain contrary to where the laws of physics dictated that they were to go, we would not have any inviolate mechanism. Like a pinprick to a balloon, the creator would have undone "his" grand plan. No more Universe!