Belief in God, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
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loginI start with a—roughly speaking, psychological—claim that I venture is true ofeveryone reading this book. At some stage in your life, the physical worldconsidered as a whole—the planet on which you live; the stars you see in the sky:the whole lot—has presented itself to your intellect as something close to aquestion. The physical universe has struck you as a phenomenon in need of anexplanation. Some of you think that you’ve found the answer to that question.Perhaps question and answer came at once, in one psychologically durationlessmoment of realization as you now think of it. Some of you think that you’vefound that there is no need for an answer after all. You’ve decided that the feelingthat the physical world as a whole is a question is illusory. And for the rest of youthe physical world as a whole continues to strike you in your reflective momentsas it did then, as a question to which an answer is required and yet sadly elusive.
