Cheap and easy scepticism

To become sceptical about God in the face of challenge or vicissitude is to mistake a question for an answer.

Similarly, many people, on discovering that people sometimes suffer, take this as proof of the non-existence of a good god, namely God.

That's merely a statement of the question to be posed; is does not constitute the answer to the question.

The universe, so my physicist friends tell me, is very big.

Fr Paul Coutinho, Sj, informs us (reliably) that the physical universe is only a fraction of reality.

I, so my biologist friends tell me, am very small, as is my intelligence, when it comes to matters of cosmological and cosmic significance.

I ask questions. I then let the remainder of my life build the answer.