The enlightenment of Bertie Wooster
Re: “The evidence that God cannot exist”, Have Your Say, July 24.
Atheist Egon misstates the position of many religious believers. Indeed they do believe something can come from nothing. Creatio ex nihilo, as they would term it. The scientific experiments that Egon refers to would only confirm their views.
Stalin and Mao were not religious believers yet millions died because of their actions.
In the comic novel “Right Ho, Jeeves” by PG Wodehouse, the immortal Bertie Wooster, himself no great genius, described an acquaintance, Miss Madeline Bassett, as follows: “Her conversation, to my mind, was of a nature calculated to excite the liveliest suspicions. Well, I mean to say, when a girl suddenly asks you out of a blue sky if you don’t sometimes feel that the stars are God’s daisy chain, you begin to think a bit.”
Ian Martin
