One of the interesting, teeth-gnashing ironies is that the father of modern genetics is a Catholic monk, Gregor Mendel, and the inventor of the Big Bang theory

One of the interesting, teeth-gnashing ironies is that the father of modern genetics is a Catholic monk, Gregor Mendel, and the inventor of the Big Bang theory is a Catholic priest, George Lemaitre. George Lemaitre was given a papal award for his efforts. Odd that Hitchens and Dawkins never mention that fascinating fact that their audiences would have been fascinated to know. Nor mention that most of Christianity never had a dogma of a literal translation of the Bible. hmmmmm... Nor tell them that most monotheisms define their supreme beings identically, ie it's the same god. Nor that the Catholic Church, that rigid institution that will not be polite enough to die or bend, teaches that the supreme being has manifested in most other monotheisms. Indeed few of them are exclusivist as atheists like to wrongly assert. Meanwhile, it is a fact that something in the universe has the property of 'existence'. Logically, it exists of itself and could not have ever not existed. Existing of itself, it appears to be a logical feedback loop. Which leads straight to a possibility, the grandest of feedback loops: self-awareness. And Dawkins main objection "Who made God?" is answered since... The real question has never been "Is there a god?", but rather "Is the fundamental thing self-aware, and if it is, does it care?". Meanwhile, despite the objections of atheists and agnostics, especially in what they see as the otherwise incomprehensible suffering of the innocent and children, the answer has always been to ask. Ie, "If you exist, God being, please reveal yourself, and show me why it is that the innocent must suffer".