[At the request of a new friend and reader, I reprint this amazing quote. I first posted it five years ago, when I was still dawdling over my conversion.]
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“Blind, pitiless indifference”
(First Published March 28, 2014)
As I have written below, I have spent many years trying to find God. I have found much Judeo-Christian theology coherent, consistent with reality, and therefore highly plausible.
But I still cannot convince myself that the other coherent, consistent worldview, atheistic materialism, is not also plausible.
Many authors have helped me along; I will list and discuss them sometime. But nothing so far has been quite so compelling as this quote from atheist guru Richard Dawkins:
“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.”
This chilling statement, offered in support of Dawkins’ atheism, is from his book Rivers of Eden, which I found quoted in Francis Collins’ The Language of God. (I recommend Collins’ book highly. He was the director of the Human Genome Project and current NIH Director as well as a Christian.)
I expect to be contemplating this for a long time.
O Ben Finiti 