Nagel even grants that a theistic worldview would solve his problems—that the existence of God would explain the very things that Darwinism cannot explain, like mind and morality. Nevertheless, he rejects the theistic answer. Why? The reason is not so much intellectual as emotional: “I want atheism to be true … I don’t want there to be a God; I don’t want the universe to be like that.” He admits that his underlying motive is a “fear of religion itself,” rooted ultimately in a “cosmic authority problem.”
