david berlinski puts things on the line

Has anyone provided proof of God’s inexistence?
 Not even close.


 Has quantum cosmology
explained the emergence of the universe or why it is here?
 Not even close.


 Have our sciences explained
why our universe seems to be fine-tuned
 to allow for the existence of life?
Not even close.


Are physicists and biologists willing to believe in anything
so long as it is not religious thought?
Close enough.


 Has rationalism and moral thought provided us
with an understanding of what is good,
what is right, and what is moral?
 Not close enough.


Has secularism in the terrible 20th century
been a force for good?
Not even close, to being close.


 Is there a narrow
and oppressive orthodoxy in the sciences?
 Close enough.


Does anything in the sciences or their philosophy
 justify the claim that religious belief is irrational?
Not even in the ball park.


 Is scientific atheism
 a frivolous exercise in intellectual contempt?
     ...Dead on.










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