Newsweek II - God Still Alive

The other bit that stood out to me in this set of articles was that they contrasted the many vibrant communities and forms of faith with an article written fifty or so years ago, whose controversial title was "Is God Dead?"

Apparently, the rational, provable God of the Enlightenment may be on his way out, but there are many people who recognize that God does not have to be proven in the same way that the speed of light would be.

So for example, I was reading a debate online about intelligent design, and the defender of ID made some very good points. I was starting to be convinced. But as I was being convinced, I also felt disappointed that God could be proven, somehow, and contained by science. It made God seem less beautiful.

I suspect that I'm not the only one attracted to God's beauty, mystery, and elusiveness, seeing the spiritual quest as a game of seduction, punctuated by life-changing moments of union with the divine, rather than as some kind of complicated math problem.