“Thoughts on the Existence of God” — Paul Johnson

English-born historian and author Paul Johnson takes on the hard-line Darwinists in his Forbes column.  Excerpts (with extra paragraphing added):

… I’ve also been reading Guy Deutscher’s The Unfolding of Language (Metropolitan Books) and reflecting on the nature of words.

Speech is the greatest of man’s inventions and the mother of all others. Yet, in truth, nobody invented it. Its emergence and evolution proceeded in ways that are still almost a total mystery. It is as close to a miracle as anything associated with human beings.

Both the Hebrews and the Greeks, in different ways, believed there was something divine about “the word,” or logos. The Greeks thought the word was the abstract principle of reason exhibited by an orderly universe. The Jews thought it the image of God, the beginning and origin of all things.

It is possible, then, that the giving of the word to humanity was the second intervention of the metaphysical force or dominion in the process of history. That, I think, is the conclusion I have come to in these difficult matters.

What will be the third, I wonder?