"How I wished that I had brought along my Italian friend Marco, a nuclear physicist, who might have, from the perspective of a profound belief in a creative God, brought the room to silence with a few reflections on nothingness. I believe he would have halved the membership of Atheist Ireland in half an hour."

What exactly would Marco's argument be, I wonder? Waters feels no need to elaborate it for some reason. Reason probably being that t has been dealt with a million times. Probably even in all those pub discussions Walters took part in.

__________________
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!