Selling philosophy disguised as science... (Score 3)

Davies is a decent pop-science writer and probably a decent scientist too - but mixing up philosophy (religion is just a subset) and physics doesn't make sense. The difference between science and philosophy is, that physical models can be empirically falsified, philosophical musings cannot (per definition). Occam's razor still applies: "If you can't explain it, don't explain it by means you still cannot explain..."