In response to a letter of mine in which I argued that there is no evidence of a supernatural “being”, Mario Dingli came up with a wide-spread fallacy (November 30).

He wrote that the universe is “proof” of God’s existence. In philosophy, this is known as the cosmological or causal argument.

It was shred to pieces by  philosophers David Hume and Immanuel Kant. The same argument is nowadays refuted by scientists, such as Lawrence M. Krauss and Stephen Hawking.

Stanley Kubrick, the producer and director of the epic film 2001: A Space Odyssey, said that “the most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent”.

When he looked up at the night sky, even the deeply religious Blaise Pascal sensed that we live in an impersonal universe. He declared: “I am terrified by the eternal silence of these infinite spaces.”