We could do without control freaks like Dawkins

Scientists really can be a rum lot. Professor Dawkins more than most.

Imagine being able to believe (and rightly of course) in the space time continuum and anti-matter, without being able to conceive of the next ‘world’ consisting of life and anti-life. Of God. Of the Spirit. Of immortality. Of spiritual enlightenment, beyond carnal ‘knowledge’ and mathematical probability. Of the ‘winnowing of the wheat from the chaff’.

Scientists can easily believe of course in the second law of thermodynamics, until its implications for Creation reduces them to tears. Then they are found floundering, expounding theories about gravity allowing the universe to create itself out of nothing, without explaining why gravity should exist if there is no matter or anti-matter warping the space time continuum in the first place, exercising its real magic independently of implied existence. It’s nothing short of a miracle.

You have to hand it to some of them for brass neck! Blithely dismissing free will if it interferes with their atheistic bent and replacing it with ‘determinism’ and all the fatalism that implies. We then are reduced to sheep, but without even the possibility of having a shepherd, never mind a Good Shepherd.

Atheists like Dawkins really are control freaks. And control freaks are another group we could really do without!

Richard Dowling

Mountrath, Co Laois