An Atheist Walks Into A Bar ...

Julian Sanchez defends atheism in a hard to excerpt post on metaphysics. He's arguing against Ron Rosenbaum's plea for a "New Agnosticism." Here's Ron's central dilemma:

Faced with the fundamental question: "Why is there something rather than nothing?" atheists have faith that science will tell us eventually.Most seem never to consider that it may well be a philosophic, logicalimpossibility for something to create itself from nothing. But thequestion presents a fundamental mystery that has...