(January 25, 2016 at 12:19 pm)athrock Wrote:(January 25, 2016 at 12:15 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote: From where I sit his intellect didn't win but his desire to have the mystery of god in his life did. His intellect was basically appeased that it could go on functioning as it always had professionally. His decision was to live with the seeming paradox and allow that how both could be true was beyond him. So a leap of faith, not a reasoned result.
Well, in the article quoted above, he specifically states that he did NOT want God to be real.
So, we can either go with your analysis of his state of mind or his.
Well obviously he didn't want God to be real .. until he did want that. Meh.