Actually, Atlas, it's the dream of wanting there to be a friend in the sky that listens to your needs and responds to you that's desperation. You can dream it all you want - just don't go pretending it's real until you know it is. Most certainly don't go around selling it to others as real, like the William Lane Craigs and the Hamza Tzortzis's of the world.
But let's say a god created everything and set up invisible rules to run the whole show. How did it do this and how can we establish the rules? See, science isn't just about putting together a story of what happened; it also has to explain the mechanism for how it happened.
But let's say a god created everything and set up invisible rules to run the whole show. How did it do this and how can we establish the rules? See, science isn't just about putting together a story of what happened; it also has to explain the mechanism for how it happened.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
