Evidence for what I know

BJ posted this on his blog quite a while ago, and then it disappeared (or at least I can't find it), so I am re-posting this here. Its from a debate between Christian Doug Wilson and atheist Christopher Hitchens. The debate was published in 6 parts in Christianity Today.

Wilson makes an important point in his response to Hitchens demand for evidence. There is evidence all around, but we don't see it because we don't receive it with grace. Romans says that we "suppress the truth in unrighteouness." We should pray that God would open our eyes to the wonder of creation.

You dismiss the idea that the death of Jesus—the "torture and death of a single individual in a backward part of the Middle East" — could possibly be the solution to the sorrows of our brutish existence. When I said that Jesus is good for the world because he is the life of the world, you just tossed this away. You said, "You cannot possibly 'know' this. Nor can you present any evidence for it."

Actually, I believe I can present evidence for what I know. But evidence comes to us like food, and that is why we say grace over it. And we are supposed to eat it, not push it around on the plate—and if we don't give thanks, it never tastes right. But here is some evidence for you, in no particular order. The engineering that went into ankles. The taste of beer. That Jesus rose from the dead on the third day, just like he said. A woman's neck. Bees fooling around in the flower bed. The ability of acorns to manufacture enormous oaks out of stuff they find in the air and dirt. Forgiveness of sin. Storms out of the North, the kind with lightning. Joyous laughter (diaphragm spasms to the atheistic materialist). The ocean at night with a full moon. Delta blues. The peacock that lives in my yard. Sunrise, in color. Baptizing babies. The pleasure of sneezing. Eye contact. Having your feet removed from the miry clay, and established forever on the rock. You may say none of this tastes right to you. But suppose you were to bow your head and say grace over all of it. Try it that way.

I'm mostly posting this because I like it, and want it in an easy-to-find place in case I ever need the quote. You should check out the whole debate, if you're interested.