The Debate Is Over

The "new atheism" of persons such as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris has been irrevocably refuted in the person of the woman who filed this lawsuit against Miley Cyrus for her supposedly mocking gesture of squinty eyes in a photograph with an Asian person. She wants four billion dollars in damages, saying she is suing on behalf of every Asian Pacific Islander and that each such person is entitled to the minimum $4,000. Why she ignores the damage done to Asians who are not Pacific Islanders is unknown.

In any event, this news can't be good for people such as Dawkins and Harris, whose disbelief in any divine being also demands a blind-chance version of evolution that selects creatures and species for survival based solely on their survival-enhancing characteristics. It is simply impossible to believe that dumbness on the level of suing a teenager for doing something stupid and silly could be a survival-enhancing characteristic, and that impossibility is affirmed by the financial amount under consideration. Dumbness on that level may be career-enhancing in Hollywood, but Hollywood is well-known as an alternate universe where normal laws do not apply. After all, Miley Cyrus has a career. In any event, the process that produces people who sue teenagers for $4 billion cannot be simple random chance. Some kind of outside agency, perhaps divine, must be at work.

That divine agency can also be seen as possessing unlimited patience and love of its creation -- there's no other rational explanation for why a being which could create the universe would not haul out the thunderbolts for something like this.