Can a Skeptic Believe in God?

Richard Dawkins is as far away from a skeptic as one could possibly imagine. He has enormous confidence about the power of human reason to answer any question that is truly worth asking in the first place. That's simply not what skepticism is. There's a particular version of radical skepticism that's absolutely paralyzing. And by radical skepticism, I want to make clear that what I mean is something like an absolute doubt about any human knowledge of anything.

form, apart from the immediate knowledge of this thing just happened that I witnessed. And then of course you doubt that because you doubt the possibility of your senses to deliver to you any truth about the outside. You had three big questions in the book you set out to answer on your journey. How am I to live? What do I owe to other people or myself?

And what is the meaning of life? Okay, just answer the last one. I actually think I do have a pretty good answer to the meaning of life at this point. It's an answer that then raises a whole bunch of other Questions.

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