Reason has no answer - 1 September 2011 |
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I don’t know whether Sir Arthur Conan Doyle thought he was really getting somewhere as he composed Sherlock Holmes’s final lines in “The Adventure of the Cardboard Box,” but to my mind he’s certainly put his finger on a problem that looms large for the secularist:
“What is the meaning of it, Watson? What is the object of this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must have a purpose, or else our universe has no meaning, which is unthinkable. But what purpose? That, is humanity’s great problem, to which reason so far, has no answer.”
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Posted by Steve Jeffery · Topics: Minister's Blog