As to God? Well, if there were a divinity then it would be utterly separate from both scientific enquiry and human longing.’ He pauses again. It is not that this thinking is hard for him – he has moved down these paths before – but that he is picking each word with care. ‘No divinity in which I would wish to believe would declare itself by means of what we would recognize as evidence.’ He gestures at the data read-out. ‘If there is a god, we should not be able to find it. If I detected proof of a deity, I would distrust that deity on the grounds that a god should be smarter than that.’
Reminds me of one of the few good moments in Star Trek V: "What does God need with a starship?"
