God and the Good Life

Abstract

Richard Dawkins claims that the world that science discovers has “no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference” (Dawkins, 1995: 133):

In a universe of blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but a blind, pitiless indifference.