> Even so, I am an athetist of many orders of magnitude beyond anything
> that Dawkins could probably understand. In fact I would say, that my
> remotness from the gods is a religious experience all its own. One of
> the more interesting thoughts to me in this realm, is the idea that an
> entire cosmos without gods of any sort, turns out to be one of the
> more profound mysteries of human conception, and further, that alone
> recommends it. Or more simply, if you can convinvce yourself that
> there is only the world and its processes, and nothing more, all the
> world turns out to be a far more mysterious and interesting place,
> than if you postulated a divinity, not matter how elaborately
> conceived and magnificently arrayed.
Why the hostility to Dawkins who agrees with this (expect the part about calling the idea religious)? Dawkins is explicit when he talks about Einstein's use of the word "God" when discussing the deep mysteries of the universe. He doesn't like the use of the word but agrees with the sentiment.
-Alex
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