Is there a God? Where's lightning?

In response to Eric Carver's article declaring that not believing in God is limiting mankind's morality, and that only with belief in God (or gods) will man have the intelligence and be empowered by God to greater achievements, I off a partial quote from a Richard Dawkins (a world renowned evolutionary biologist from Oxford in the United Kingdom):

"If you live in America, the chances are good that your next door neighbors believe the following: the inventor of the laws of physics and programmer of the DNA code decided to enter the uterus of a Jewish virgin, got himself born, then had himself tortured and executed because he couldn't think of a better way to forgive the theft of an apple, committed at the instigation of a talking snake. As Creator of the majestically expanding universe, he not only understands relativistic gravity and quantum mechanics but actually designed them. Yet what he really cares about is "sin," abortion, how often you go to church and whether gay people should marry. Statistically, the chances are that your neighbors believe all that-and they can vote."

A friend of mine, who knows very well that I don't believe in any religious teachings or in God, recently told me he might be coming around to thinking I'm right. I asked him why, and he said, because if there were a God I should have been hit by lightening at least 10 times by now.

Jim Peterson

Hoffman Estates