I had a conversation with a professor of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, a professor

of physics.

And I was about to give an address that night on the adequacy of human language to speak

about God.

And this gentleman was there, something as a skeptic and was being cynical, and we had

dinner beforehand, and he said to me, I don't envy your task, and he said, what's that?

He said, having to get up there and talk about God.

He said, because you can't say anything meaningful about God, because God is beyond the scope

of science and beyond the scope of real language and so on.

He said, there's a tough thing to do, isn't it?

And I said, well, yes, I said, but surely you can understand my dilemma.

And he said, why?

I said, well, because you have the same problem with categories that you guys use in physics.

And he said, like, what?

How?

And I said, well, like energy.

And he said, what do you mean?

I said, well, what is energy?

And he said, well, everybody has good energy.

I said, well, what is it?

He said, it's the ability to do work.

I said, I don't want to know what it can do.

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