@emmywayne64 Many comics over the years have alluded to Doom actually being more intelligent than Reed, if not for his vanity. I always liked that take.
Friends, in my evangelical work online, I often encounter people who are skeptical of religion—dismissing it as a tired, irrational superstition.
When I meet someone like this, I usually begin by asking them, “Do you believe in science?”
The typical response: “Well, of course.”
To which I say: The condition for the possibility of any science is the deep conviction that the world, in every nook and cranny, is intelligible. It has something like a rational pattern to it that can be understood. Otherwise, science wouldn’t get off the ground.
Albert Einstein famously put it this way: “The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it’s comprehensible.”
So here’s my question to critics of religion: How do you explain that? Where does this universal intelligibility—describable with the most complex mathematics—come from?
The answer I typically receive is “I don’t know; that’s just the way it is.”
I have a better answer: The world is marked by mathematically precise and complex intelligibility because it was made by a mathematician.