Pi Patel: I told you two stories that account for the 227 days in between. Neither explain the sinking of the Tsimtsum. Neither make a factual difference to you. You cannot prove which story is true and which is not. You must take my word for it. In both stories the ship sinks, my entire family dies, and I suffer. So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story?
Mr. Okamoto: That's an interesting question
Mr. Chiba: The story with animals.
Mr. Okamoto: Yes. The story with animals is the better story.
Pi Patel: Thank you. And so it goes with God.
Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them — and then they leap.