Do you believe in God?
Me?
The creator?
Yeah, so I'm, the more I look at the universe, just the less convinced I am that there is
something benevolent going on.
So if you, if your concept of a creator is someone who's all powerful and all good, that's
not an uncommon pairing of powers that you might describe to a creator.
All powerful and all good.
And I look at disasters that afflict Earth and life on Earth.
Volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, disease, pestilence, congenital birth defects.
You look at this list of ways that life is made miserable on Earth by natural causes.
And I just ask, how do you deal with that?
So philosophers rose up and said, if there is a God, God is either not all powerful or
not all good.
I have no problems if, as we probe the origins of things, we bump up into the bearded man.
If that shows up, we're good to go, okay?
Not a problem.
There's just no evidence of it.
And this is why religions are called faiths, collectively.
Because you believe something in the absence of evidence.
That's what it is.
That's why it's called faith.
Otherwise, we would call all religions evidence, but we don't, for exactly that reason.
So I'm given what everyone describes to be the properties that would be expressed by
an all-powerful being in the gods that they worship.
I look for that in the universe and I don't find it.
So I remain unconvinced.
But if you've got some good evidence, bring it, bring it, bring it, okay?
And so I don't, I don't lead with that information because what I believe should be irrelevant
to anyone.
It's not about me.
It's about the real world.
For that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath showed it unto them.
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood
by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without
excuse.
Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but
became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Being themselves to be wise, they became fools.