Scott Adams, God of Atheism

Some people say Richard Dawkins will become the God of Atheism. I say it's Scott Adams.

Now, as you may know, I read Scott's blog (he's the Dilbert guy, remember?). A couple months ago, I posted a comment on one of his atheistic posts. Every day he gets thousands of comments, and who knows how many emails. There's no way he reads them all, although I think he at least skims: he'll mention the comments in a post, or leave comment replies himself.

But I know that he read my comment. How? He specifically made fun of me on his blog. Go look at how my blog looked when he would have seen it. And now read his very next post. Did you catch the clincher?

Oh, and add “gourmand” to [the list of words to use if you want to appear smarter than you are].

Clearly, I've gotten his attention. But it could be coincidence, right? To test my hypothesis, I sent him an email a few days ago:

I have a question that I think points up the limits of science and opens the door to belief in the supernatural:

Why are we in a deterministic system?

Why is this stupid?

And wouldn't you know it, his very next post is clearly intended as a response. The clincher, again, is in the last paragraph:

My question is this: ... [emphasis mine]

Hah! Now some of you might advise me to get a restraining order against Scott for teasing my like this. But you know what? I'm used to it, because it's exactly like prayer: lob some petitions upwards, and divine the replies in the chicken-scratch of life. We all know that Scott likes to play mind games, and apparently he's pretty good at answering prayer in a way that requires true faith to discern.

So there you have it. From now on I'm going to pray to Scott Adams whenever I have hard questions about Atheism. Feed back to Chad Whitacre.