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12. It's not necessarily an either/or proposition

(Perhaps no one is “bullshitting us.”)

I was intrigued reading Novacene by james Lovelock to find that having read a book on “Anthropic Cosmology” he had come to believe that the universe was tailor made for our existence. He was not “religious” per se, in that he did not follow the rituals, or accept the stories generally associated with religions.

Part of the reason I was intrigued was because I believe I had read the same book at about the same time he had, and found it similarly persuasive.

I have known scientists who were atheists and scientists who were deeply religious as well as many who were somewhere in between. A Hindu scientist once said to me, out-of-the-blue, “People ask me, ‘Why do you believe in a god?’ I ask them, ‘Do you believe in electrons? Why? Have you ever seen an electron?’”