Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

The challenge is not as clever as Hitchens imagines it to be. It is hardly worthy of the intellect he usually displays. In fact, it’s rather naïve, for it actually supports theism instead of refuting it, in that it presupposes an innate moral and ethical value system. If all mankind did not share this common set of morals, the challenge would be worthless because it would mean different things to different people. In specific response to Hitchens, it could be said that although an unbeliever is capable of doing the same good deeds as a believer, he cannot do them for the same moral and rational reasons.