When my daughter was about six or seven, she asked me if I believed in God. I told her no, and she asked me why.
I don't see any evidence, I told her.
"He's not a person, Dad," she told me. "He wouldn't come down and leave any evidence."
Why would he? Why would God want us to "know" him? Our knowledge of him would diminish him -- he would no longer be perfect.
And furthermore, can we say of a perfect being that it would "want"?
"The more we refine our concept of God to square with natural law, to explain what we know, the more pointless it seems." -- Steven Weinberg, Dreams of a Final Theory.
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