I don’t accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is
automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view. My
view is that the moon is made of rock. If someone says to me “Well, you
haven’t been there, have you? You haven’t seen it for yourself, so my
view that it is made of Norwegian Beaver Cheese is equally valid” -
then I can’t even be bothered to argue. There is such a thing as the
burden of proof, and in the case of god, as in the case of the
composition of the moon, this has shifted radically. God used to be the
best explanation we’d got, and we’ve now got vastly better ones. God is
no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something
that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. So I
don’t think that being convinced that there is no god is as irrational
or arrogant a point of view as belief that there is. I don’t think the
matter calls for even-handedness at all.
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