(urth) Faterh Inire Theory

[Lee Berman]

> Do you believe in God?
 
>Gerry Quinn- A difficult question, because I'm not sure.  I have sometimes wondered 
>whether the concept of God - that is to say the concept of God as active 
>agency, not the concept of God as concept - is compatible with what we know 
>of the physical nature of the universe.   My current thinking is that it may 
>be, but I am far from certain of the truth.
 
Thank you for that honest and incisive answer :- ). I think tying God to being compatible
with the physical nature of the universe does suggest you are an unredeemable
materialist. Which is cool! Heck it seems to be working very well for Stephen Hawking who,
I think, recently denied the existence of God or found Him unnecessary or something. Science 
is an incredible tool for understanding almost all of what we see in the universe around us. 
I guess I am pretty much a materialist myself.
 
But, if I may be honest, materialism seems to be a worldview to which you are deeply 
wedded.  You aren't showing signs of being able to step outside it when trying to understand 
the things that materialism can't explain, like God and religious thinking and religious 
thinkers as Gene Wolfe, at some levels, is. Can you recognize materialism as a handicap in this 
small, restricted venue? How does one talk to a blind man who finds the existence of colors to be 
"highly unlikely".?