Still I suppose we can afford to be generous. The perennial philosophy is perennial because it is the philosophy of all normal, sensible persons. And no normal, sensible person believes that the flora and fauna, to say nothing of the humana, of Britain in 1869 came out of a fiery cloud of incalculable eons ago, without a superintending intelligence. Only in atheism does the spring rise higher than the source, the effect exist without the cause, life come from a stone, blood from a turnip, a silk purse from a sow's ear, a Beethoven symphony or a Bach fugue from a kitten's walking across the keys. In comparison with these prodigies, the ridiculous miracles of the Koran would be reasonable.
Unbelievers believe more than believers and on less evidence.
Skeptical as I am, said Voltaire, I declare such to be evident madness, speaking of some silly theory broached in his day to explain plus by minus and produce something out of nothing. There are no Atheists.