Jesus saves - Religion/UK/Australia/Global
Stephen Matchett; 19/3/08
Demonstrating the Lord works in mysterious ways, University of Oxford academics have received a research grant of pound stg. 1.9 million (which equals the Tasmanian budget on the present exchange rate) to investigate why people believe in God. That the question has come up at all is a sign, not necessarily a divine one, of the times. A century ago the answer would have been obvious: people believed in God because the supreme being’s existence was manifest, what with him (never her) being omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. Two hundred years back, believing in God was also essential to stay out of the slammer, what with the way atheists tended to end up under arrest whenever the state was short of scapegoats.
See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23398999-23375,00.html