I just came across this quote:
“There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can’t prove that there aren’t any, so shouldn’t we be agnostic with respect to fairies?”
—Richard Dawkins (1941 – ····)— The God Delusion
I’m assuming he expects us to answer, “No” as Dawkins seems to be suggesting that having to keep an open mind to God is foolishness in the same way that keeping an open mind to fairies is foolishness (at least in his world view).
In all intellectual honesty however I have to answer his question with “Yes”. I’m not overly confident that there are fairies in my backyard (at least not as folklore has introduced them) but I can’t say with intellectual honesty that they are not. I remain to be convinced but I’m not so foolish as to deny what I cannot understand simply because it doesn’t fit within my head or, and perhaps worst yet, within cultural norms.
Sorry, but this just feeds into my whole problem with modern culture being unable to deal with mystery even though we cannot deny or escape it.
I’m not trying to prove there is a God but if you want to take logic as your tool, as Dawkins often does, and ridicules others for being illogical then you kind of have to call someone on that. Well, at least I do.
But then again, I could be wrong 