Impressed by the power of the brain to solve hard problems, intellec­tuals with credits in thinking and deficits in morality have for centuries deceived themselves and others that humans can remake themselves into better creatures than those designed by their Creator.

Excited by this prospect, religious leaders with similar credits and deficits have added their weight to the project. But ever since two of the grandest delusions of all time – the Protagoras boast that “Man is the measure of all things” and the Enlightenment myth that Reason is the only way to truth – a persistent minority of souls have noticed the emptiness of both claims, wondering how such an unintelligent take on life could have flattened so many minds.

Using brainpower to demystify God and Nature, obstacles in the mission to improve people and the world, the heirs of Bacon, Rousseau, Hegel, Mill, Emerson, John Dewey, and a host of other bright stars of intellect (with dim morals) are still expecting reason to improve human life and banish evil. But evi­dence of such an outcome so far shows conclusively that the philosophes, past and present, have been greatly mistaken.

Readers may draw their own conclusions of how far off the mark the world has come in getting populated with better people through brainpower. Even amplified with the latest technologies, human brains are evidently unequal to the task. It would appear that keeping humanity from succumbing to the worst consequences of morality-starved brainpower has been the work of divine........

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