I can’t be sure what Tom Stoppard thinks, but I suspect Hilary speaks for him. She definitely speaks for me. I don't believe in a God who answers prayers. But I grinned and nodded when Hilary said that “every theory proposed for the problem of consciousness has the same degree of demonstrability as divine intervention.”
Well, petitionary prayer is only one form of prayer. There is another that consists in placing oneself in silence before God (as it were). Some very interesting experiences can result, the upshot being to discover that there indeed are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in philosophy.
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