According to Penn Jillette via an NPR article, “the taller, louder half” of the Vegas magic duo Penn & Teller the answer is no, There Is No God.

I believe that there is no God. I’m beyond Atheism. Atheism is not believing in God. Not believing in God is easy — you can’t prove a negative, so there’s no work to do. You can’t prove that there isn’t an elephant inside the trunk of my car.
(…)
I’m not greedy. I have love, blue skies, rainbows, and Hallmark cards, and that has to be enough… It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.

Poignant words from a “a research fellow at the Cato Institute [who] has lectured at Oxford and MIT [&] has co-authored three best-selling books …” ? He has “love, blue skies, rainbows, and Hallmark cards” and that’s enough answers for him to the big questions in life? Give me a break! I can’t do justice to tearing apart Penn’s screed, but Doug TenNapel sure does!

Penn Jillette informs us that “There is no God” over at NPR. I’d like to answer his challenge though I can’t call it David and Goliath since I’m also over 6′ 6″ and have an enormous mouth. How about Goliath and Goliath?
(…)
The profound thing I’m learning is that God’s joy is not tied to our things. A fat Vegas magician smoking a stogie and finding bliss in his family doesn’t convince me of a world view…ah, but the Christian martyrs had their families murdered by Roman soldiers and they still found joy. (…)

Go read Doug’s almost line-for-line fisking of Penn’s ‘This I Believe’ Essay. (db)

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