The Professor who had almost lost his voice managed a two hour performance to a packed house in the new Eden Court Theatre Inverness. He joked that his lost voice could be an act of God.
I don't know if the audience was 98 % atheists but no one was fit for him. He demolishes the simplistic view of God but not the God the ground of our being. He tells much of what most undergraduates at age 18 feel. My regret is that when I could have written much the same questionings of traditional religion as he has done in his book 'The God Delusion' I didn't see it as an opportunity ! I do believe however that lives like that of Mother Teresa of Calcutta speak for themselves and if people like her are deluded let it be so.
Professor Dawkins spoke of science removing the need for a creator and I agree with him but also find the idea that all the matter in the universe was compressed into a pin head size blob almost as puzzling and incredible.
That is what the Big Bang theory, currently accepted by scientists, presupposes !
