Is There a Common Argument Against Belief in God?

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When it comes to believing in god, or theism as a ontological stands toward the world, do you get there from a similar set of reasoning that you get to your belief in science and evolution? Or are there different considerations that come in? I think there are different considerations. But more particularly, it is er this question, where doesmy imagination come from? Why do i find myself in some parts of the world which are just staggeringly beautifulin in a rather unexpected way,. Not just tourist sights. An they can be in surprisingly mundane ways. It's even worse to have a material universe where this is simply meaningless than at least having some prospect of its being sorted out.

Evolution by natural selection is one of the rare scientific theories that resonates within the wider culture as much as it does within science. But as much as people know about evolution, we also find the growth of corresponding myths. Simon Conway Morris is a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist who’s new book is From Extraterrestrials to Animal Minds: Six Myths of Evolution. He is known as a defender of evolutionary convergence and adaptationism — even when there is a mass extinction, he argues, the resulting shake-up simply accelerates the developments evolution would have made anyway. We talk about this, and also about the possible role of God in an evolutionary worldview.

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Simon Conway Morris received his Ph.D. in geology from the University of Cambridge. He is currently an emeritus professor of evolutionary paleobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences at Cambridge. Among his awards are the Walcott Medal of the National Academy of Sciences and the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society of London.

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