[Physicist]

This is your modern enlightened science. This is its fruit.

Yawn. Bestiality and abortion are the result of scientific inquiry in the same sense that 9/11 was the result of saying grace at the dinner table. You need fresher bait if you want to get a nibble.

They are haughty, condescending, and know-it-all--especially in their dealings with people of faith.

The superstitious can't stand the notion that the universe operates according to objective, predictable, understandable principles. Certainly you feel threatened, but the universe is the way it is, and not how we would wish it to be.

[Phaedrus]

The superstitious can't stand the notion that the universe operates according to objective, predictable, understandable principles.

Well, yes it does, but this is an argument for God, not against "Him", and it does not at all illuminate "His" nature beyond this one very basic observation.

[Kevin Curry]

Yeah, Physicist. we're all stoopid and you're smart. Give you a slide rule, a mechanical pencil, and a plastic pocket protector, and you can divine all the secrets of the universe--past, present, and future. Between yawns, you can pat the ignorant and supersititous on their heads as you exult in the incredible majesty of your all-knowingness and the absolute Newtonian predictability of the Cosmos (shhhh. Don't wake Herr Doktor Schroedinger).

And tomorrow? Your smartness flickers, draws away to a dull glow, and winks out, cast upon a foamy river of mindlessness wending its purposeless way to an ocean of heat death.

In the end, none of it mattered, Physicist. Your dear wife, your wonderful children--the joy they brought you with their smiles and hugs. It was all a cruel Darwinian joke, but no one was left alive to appreciate the punchline.