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Where the Simplifying is Wanted PDF Print E-mail
Books in the Making - Chrestomathy
Written by Douglas Wilson   
Monday, 05 September 2011 09:13

"Hitchens assumes that the elimination of God from the creation of all things is a simplifying move. It may have simplified Hitchens' personal life, but it most emphatically does not simplify our explanations of how spiders figured out web engineering" (God Is, p. 43)



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Marc Alan Hays  Monday, September 05, 2011 6:13 pm
I heard this guy say once that there can be no easily believable answer to an impossible to believe world. I think I overheard it at a carnival.
Rob Steele  Monday, September 05, 2011 8:52 pm
This is funny because it suggests H's motives are moral rather than intellectual.