Stephen Meyer

Well, the erudition of the late, great Christopher Hitchens is not to be underestimated.

It's a fabulous quote and a very clarifying point about what the atheists themselves hold.

And the point is rather not that they know that God does not exist, but rather they're claiming that

There is no convincing argument for God's existence that has not been convincingly rebutted.

I would simply dispute that.

I think there are many very convincing arguments for theism.

The cosmological argument, the fine-tuning argument, the fine-tuning design argument, that is.

And the argument from design and biology are all three great scientific arguments

that I think are very powerful in support of theism.

And I think the materialist or atheist rebuttals are actually quite weak.

And in addition, I think there are great arguments, philosophical arguments, the argument from epistemological necessity, the argument that affirms that the reliability of the mind

and therefore, which is a condition of there being knowledge at all, is best explained, best accounted for by theism.

I think there's a great moral argument for theism based on the fact that we all live as though there are objective moral principles, and yet if we take a strict atheistic position, we have no grounds for asserting objective morality, only relative morality.

I think there's many good arguments for theism, and I think that it's really essentially a matter of judgment.

Christopher Hitchens has judged them not to be adequate, but I judge them the opposite.

I also think something could be said about the definitions of atheist and agnostic.

In other words, he's sounding quite modest here.

We cannot say with certainty that God does not exist.

There's a sort of redefinition of atheist going on here, it seems to me.

You're making atheist mean agnostic, so that sounds modest in a way, but then you're going around