What the heck in a bendy-bus? Nevermind, I’ll go google and see what pops up.

It’s a really interesting take on it, as he looks at a number of theories and presents his conclusions.

Then you’ve got Stephen Hawking’s A Briefer History of Time, which always messes with my head. Note Briefer; it’s the newer one with less maths in. It’s when you get stuff about time used to be part of space, until space was a particular size; the idea that you could travel in time by going over there seems odd rather than an accepted scientific theory…

There’s also The Universe Next Door and The Never Ending Days Of Being Dead, if you want other scientific takes on ‘why are we here’, and ‘what’s it all about, really, when you get down to it..?’

There’s a bit of “look at all the bad things done in the name of religion”, and stuff like that. Dawkins also makes the case well (certainly in The Blind Watchmaker, can’t remember offhand if it’s in TGD) that you don’t need to infer a God simply because you can’t understand how something that complicated (such as the eye) could have arisen by chance. Dawkins calls it the ‘argument from incredulity’ and demolishes it somewhat: just because you don’t understand something, doesn’t mean it isn’t so.

Sadly, he fails to apply the same rules to his own argument — he finds it inconceivable that there could be a God, but fails to recognise that just because he can’t understand how there could be one, that doesn’t mean there isn’t…

And I have to say that I think if your viewpoint about the matter is as simplistic and cliched as you present, then maybe you should read more about it — but not just from writers who would support your initial beliefs — read something to try and challenge them also. Above all, make your own mind up, and don’t let anyone else do it for you.