Believing in the Cook
IllustrationHistorical Account★★In 1988 President Ronald Reagan, who had spoken to many atheist Russians, said that he always thought to invite one of them to a gourmet meal and then after they had feasted, to ask them if they believe in the cook.
The point
President Reagan's gourmet-meal analogy suggests that skeptics who deny a Creator still implicitly trust the evidence of design all around them, just as they would trust a cook by the meal he prepared.
