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Editorial

God and the Philosophers

by Rick Lewis

Napoleon: “Monsieur Laplace, they tell me you have written this large book on the system of the universe, and have never even mentioned its Creator.”

Pierre-Simon Laplace: “Je n’avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là.”

(“I had no need of that hypothesis.”)

The guttering, smoky candle dripped wax onto the desk as the grizzled, grey-haired monk toiled late into the night on yet another treatise proving God’s existence and discoursing upon His essential nature. His tired eyes narrowed as he tested the logic of arguments ontological and cosmological, and of how God could be both three and one at the same time.

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