Is there a God?

Can you be sure of it?

Couldn’t we just put the whole idea of God into mothballs? Haven’t most people by now? If there is God, he hasn’t shown his face enough to keep us thinking of him, has he? Wouldn’t - shouldn’t - he keep a high profile if he wanted us to know he is for real?

In spite of the fact that secularity seems to be taking over in America the way it did some years ago in Europe, surveys still turn up the same conclusions: People by an overwhelming number, even in the high-technology countries, on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, want to affirm that "there is God." Something like 95% still say that there is a divine controller of the universe. Consensus breaks down when you ask them what God is like, how he or she - or it? - relates to humankind, if God does …