Evidence for God question

[Al_Moritz]

The honest materialist has to explain not only mathematics, but higher mathematics. As Barr says, the knowledge of π seems to have nothing to do with natural selection, if by natural selection we mean that nature selects traits for their survival value. Why on earth would the existence of π as an abstract concept matter to ancient men? Where does π come from in the grand design of things if not encoded in us by a Very Smart Person? This Very Smart Person wanted us to begin down a trail of knowledge toward Himself, and wanted us to rise above and beyond ourselves and to reach out to Him, even though He is far more mysterious than the π we have already embraced.

Indeed.

Even atheist philosopher Thomas Nagel concedes in his brilliant book The Last Word, a convincing defense of objectivity of rational thought, that the explanation of human rationality poses a grave challenge to naturalism. He also admits that an evolutionary explanation of rationality and abstract thinking is, quote, “laughably inadequate” (The Last Word, p.75).

Good for him, he is intellectually honest instead of uncritically embracing facile, lazy and dogmatic materialistic explanations.