April 19, 2007
Molecules Acting Upon Molecules Dinesh D'Souza: Where Is Atheism When Bad Things Happen?

Taking on Richard Dawkins, D'Souza writes, "To no one's surprise, Dawkins has not been invited to speak to the grieving Virginia Tech community. What this tells me is that if it's difficult to know where God is when bad things happen, it is even more difficult for atheism to deal with the problem of evil. The reason is that in a purely materialist universe, immaterial things like good and evil and souls simply do not exist. For scientific atheists like Dawkins, Cho's shooting of all those people can be understood in this way--molecules acting upon molecules."