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October 31, 2005
Woke up too early
The time change bothered me less yesterday. I woke up too early this morning and couldn't fall asleep again. The thought of running at night didn't bother me before, but now seems like a real drag. At least the weather forecast is mild. Maybe I'll take a nap on the floor of my office at some point.
As I checked out three books for three weeks from the bibliothèque anglophone in le Touvet and didn't do enough reading last week, I'm trying to catch up. I'm not going to make it. But I've started both books that are left.
The first is Pigs in Heaven from Barbara Kingsolver. She's so good at telling a story, but I'm too fidgety to listen right now. Maybe I can renew the book.
The other is The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins. He's lucky there are creationists around, since they act naturally to select for survival only those Darwinist ideas that withstand motivated criticism. I enjoy his book, but if he's trying to convince me to convert to atheism, well... I'm not convinced. The longer I live, the more I write, the less convinced I am, period.
None of that shakes my belief in God. I mean, I check myself, "Do I believe in God?" The answer comes back, "Yes." Strange that belief in God doesn't get cut away by Occam's razor.
I also believe there are other people who just as naturally come to the opposite conclusion. They check, "Do I believe in God?" The answer comes back, "No." Still other people must get the answer, "I'm not sure."
It seems that one could apply rigorous scientific method here with secret balloting and double blinds and the whole nine yards, and the statisically significant sample would come back with some believers, some non-believers, and some sitting on the fence. So I'm looking for Dawkins to give up arguing with people over whether there's a God who created everything and instead try to explain how belief in God evolved. But this morning all he wanted to tell me about was eyes and evolutionary convergence on isolated continents.
Posted by Mark at October 31, 2005 08:12 AM
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