The Illusion Of Purpose And Design Is

Now, Almost One Hundred Years Later, It Is Difficult To Fully Appreciate How Much Our Picture Of The Universe Has Changed In The Span Of A Single Human Lifetime. As Far As The Scientific Community In 1917 Was Concerned, The Universe Was Static And Eternal, And Consisted Of A One Single Galaxy, Our Milky Way, Surrounded By Vast, Infinite, Dark, And Empty Space. This Is, After All, What You Would Guess By Looking Up At The Night Sky With Your Eyes, Or With A Small Telescope, And At The Time There Was Little Reason To Suspect Otherwise.

Forget Jesus. The Stars Died So That You Could Be Here Today.

The Lack Of Understanding Of Something Is Not Evidence For God. It's Evidence Of A Lack Of Understanding.

Of Course, Supernatural Acts Are What Miracles Are All About. They Are, After All, Precisely Those Things That Circumvent The Laws Of Nature. A God Who Can Create The Laws Of Nature Can Presumably Also Circumvent Them At Will. Although Why They Would Have Been Circumvented So Liberally Thousands Of Years Ago, Before The Invention Of Modern Communication Instruments That Could Have Recorded Them, And Not Today, Is Still Something To Wonder About.

A Truly Open Mind Means Forcing Our Imaginations To Conform To The Evidence Of Reality, And Not Vice Versa.