The Human Question

I'm listening to J Budziszewski's What we Can't not Know  and I was amazed by his quote from Thomas Nagel's The Last Word , where the latter admits that atheism has motivations that are not entirely free of wishful thinking: "I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers. It isn’t just that I don’t believe in God and, naturally, hope that I’m right in my belief. It’s that I hope there is no God! I don’t want there to be a God; I don’t want the universe to be like that.” says Nagel.  This is really an amazing quote.  See also Nagel's mention of the "ridiculous overuse of (r)evolutionary biology"... more on this later.