The Sea Otters of Arbitrary Value

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“When Hitchens appeals to things like innate conscience and human decency, doing so as an evolutionary atheist, he is functioning as an illusionist. What he is doing is transparently a trick. Even if a Christian reader doesn’t know how he is doing that trick, it is manifestly a trick. And it is a pretty good one, too. He is not pulling a rabbit out of a hat — he pulled three sea otters out of that thing. The sea otters are now lined up on the stage, and we can make out their embossed names on the collars — human decency, innate conscience, and solidarity. But regardless of what you think you have seen, the battered top hat of atheism does not really produce sea otters. Unless you give it 10 million years. Then it is a possibility I guess” (God Is, p. 101).

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