I am constantly amazed how many novels have something to say about God and worldviews. And while I revere books and the authors who write them for the very fact they have actually written a book, I don’t revere them enough to keep it a one-way monologue. I would like to promote dialogue about books and the ideas propagated by them.   Take “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” by Mark Haddon. It’s an excellent story told first-hand by an autistic boy, Christopher. Christopher’s autism means he has a very logical brain that retains a lot of scientific facts. He turns his logical brain to thinking about God and devotes chapter 199 (don’t be alarmed, the book’s not that big, you’ll understand the numbering when you read it), to his thoughts on God.   He says, ‘People believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance. But they should think logically and if they thought logically they would see that they can only ask this question because it has already happened and they exist.’   Earlier, on page 194, Christopher says, “…because nothing can travel faster than the speed of light this means that we can only know about a fraction of the things that go on in the universe…” In light (pardon the pun) of the sparkly new discovery of particles travelling faster than the speed of light*, it seems only half of his statement is true; that we can only know about a fraction of the things that go on in the universe!   And that leads me to question his statement on page 113, “…sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.”     My question is, perhaps it’s not that we want to be stupid, but that we don’t know where to look for truth when what’s universally acknowledged as truth can be pulled from under our feet?   * An update on the particles, questioning whether they did travel faster than light http://bigthink.com/ideas/41806

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