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A Commonsense Interpretation Of The Facts Suggests That A Superintellect Has Monkeyed With Physics, As Well As With Chemistry And Biology, And That There Are No Blind Forces Worth Speaking About In Nature. The Numbers One Calculates From The Facts Seem To Me So Overwhelming As To Put This Conclusion Almost Beyond Question.

On Scientific Grounds This Big Bang Assumption Is Much Less The Palatable Of The Two. For It Is An Irrational Process That Cannot Be Described In Scientific Terms. . . . On Philosophical Grounds Too I Cannot See Any Good Reason For Preferring The Big Bang Idea. Indeed It Seems To Me In The Philosophical Sense To Be A Distinctly Unsatisfactory Notion, Since It Puts The Basic Assumption Out Of Sight Where It Can Never Be Challenged By A Direct Appeal To Observation.

Once I Had Learnt My Twelve Times Table (at The Age Of Three) It Was Downhill All The Way.

Religion Is But A Desperate Attempt To Find An Escape From The Truly Dreadful Situation In Which We Find Ourselves. Here We Are In This Wholly Fantastic Universe With Scarcely A Clue As To Whether Our Existence Has Any Real Significance. No Wonder Then That Many People Feel The Need For Some Belief That Gives Them A Sense Of Security, And No Wonder That They Become Very Angry With People Like Me Who Say That This Is Illusory.

Some Super-calculating Intellect Must Have Designed The Properties Of The Carbon Atom, Otherwise The Chance Of My Finding Such An Atom Through The Blind Forces Of Nature Would Be Utterly Minuscule.