If you take a line like 'And God saw that it was good' What is the intuition that and the reaction to the intuition that leads you to say that? And I think one way of expressing what lies behind that, what should draw that iteration out of you, is a certain conception of the created order, of the what Bill Gale used to call the Cosmos... which is a source of the same time joy and inspiration. So I would like to start with the words that Richard Dawkins once said on a TV interview. Dawkins is the former professor of Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, and he's also the author of some bestselling books like The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion. I don't know if you heard about these books or have read them, but he's very known as a very diehard atheist. but I like very much these words that he said on a TV interview that I want to read to you. He said: Spirituality can mean something that I'm very sympathetic to. Which is a sort of sense of wonder at the beauty of the universe, the complexity of life, the magnitude of space, the magnitude of geological time. All those things create a sort of frisson in the breast, which you can call spirituality. Now, when I listen to these words, isn't this an expression of the experience of beholding divine beauty?
