Since the era of Newton and certainly since Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’ when the great question mark was thrust upon the issue of religious faith and the feasibility of Biblically derived codes of ethics (not to mention the now implausible assertions of ‘Creationism’) - since the dawn of this era, which properly marks the separation of Church and State, we have been in a position to sculpt afresh an alternative set of ‘rules for living’ derived not from an assumed ‘Creator’ entity but from a more...