26 February 2009
I just posted a response to this article on the BBC news website. The article suggests that we should set aside ideas of God and religion, in order to be able think properly. I've tried to argue that logic and God are not at odds, but rather God is the reason for order, reason and logic.Here's what I wrote:
There is no room for logic in 'basic humanist principles'. If humans only exist as the product of millions of years of blind evolution, we have no logical reason to expect there to be an order, structure or logic to our lives. Reason, logic and common sense are guides, but they can only take us so far - they point to a greater authority responsible for the order we see around us. When you take God out of the picture, you remove the foundation upon which all logical thought relies.
