This post is my response to a post on Tyler Cowen's fantastic blog, Marginal Revolution: Why will the important thinkers of the future be religious ones? - Marginal REVOLUTIONTony O’Connor requests I cover this: A few times you have said that the important thinkers of the future will be

The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymous BoschIHundreds of years ago in the Western world the question, "Does God exist?" would have been met with pity and confusion; today, the question, "Does the world exist?" would be met with precisely the same kind of pity and confusion, meant to express a