Defending Revelation

A Reply to Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais likes to say (h/t

David Bashevkin

) that if we wiped away all human knowledge and started civilization from scratch, science and mathematics would eventually re-emerge, but religion would not.

It’s a clever line. Gervais means it as a knock on religion: if something can’t be rediscovered through reason alone, it must not be real.

But Gervais’s argument doe…