It is difficult to see how any quarter can be offered or given in such warfare; and it looks as if the suicide bomber condemns us to total war, unless the pen is mightier than the sword, and faith mightier than both. Although the suicide bomber may seem to give Islam a certain leverage now among those who would give anything for a quiet life; in the long term, unless disowned, he condemns Islam to be a barbaric religion willing to resort to civil war to realize its aims. And surely to resort to civil war, irresponsibly and without thought, means you are willing to countenance the risk of nuclear holocaust, in the event of other nations being drawn in? No Creator could possibly want the destruction of his creation; he must prefer, whether He be Jehovah or Allah or the Father of Jesus, the destruction of the party that so irresponsibly risks it. Once creation, or the cosmos, is seen as a whole, the most likely speculation is that any Creator, Christian or Muslim or Jewish, must prefer to see those who imperil his creation exterminated first; and equally if there is no creator, liberal opinion must want them exterminated too. This means that Islam must disown its suicide bombers, if there is to be any moderation. If Christianity and Islam are in rivalry, their differences must be fought out with the pen and with words; or society cannot contain both.
The priceless service science has rendered mankind is to enable us once again to view creation as a whole. We do not have to view it as scientists do; for that view is highly technical and academic. We can each view it in our own way; but we must now view it as a whole, or else get out of touch with modern thought. Suicide bombers do not view creation as a whole; indeed it is hardly possible to be more blinkered. And they will drag down any society that tolerates them.