I understand whereis coming from when he says, basically, the world is destroying itself over a bunch of fairy tales about talking snakes and men who are alive inside fishes. I'm very sympathetic to it, but at the same time, given thethat we're living in, it's very persuasive, thethat there is some kind of firstthat's running things. It might not be theofand , it might not be the god of , and it might not be the god of , but something very well could be running things. The order of the universe as we see it, the interlocking nature, and the way things work together, are persuasive of the idea that there may be some overarching first cause.

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