Thursday, January 26, 2006

Of authors and atheist

Having nothing to do during my super long chinese new year break, I went through some of the old reading material I had sitting on my shelf. I found two quotes that I felt tempted to place here.

"How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation? What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatalogical mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements?"
Joseph Heller

"The Babel fish," said The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quietly," is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy recieved not from tis own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech pattern you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish."

"Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existance of God."

"The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.' "

"'But,' says Man, 'the Babal fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves You exist, and so therefore by Your own arguments, You don't. QED.'"

"'Oh dear,' says God 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic."

Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

I think there is no need to elaborate on the quotes any further and it is safe to assume that the authors of these quotes are atheist. These quotes do make sense, they are logical and they both deny the existence of God. But with me trying to be a God beliving and a God fearing person the question is who screwed up? It is God or logic? I know what my answer is, how about you?

1 comment:

Rex said...

Cool stuff...