The following is extracted from a speech given by Dr. Richard Dawkins accepting The 1996 Humanist of the Year award from the American Humanist Association.
"Suppose that, at the moment of Christ's death, the news of it had started traveling at the maximum possible speed around the universe outwards from the earth.
How far would the terrible tidings have traveled by now?
Following the theory of special relativity, the answer is that the news could not, under any circumstances whatever, have reached more that one-fiftieth of the way across one galaxy -- not one-thousandth of the way to our nearest neighboring galaxy in the 100-million-galaxy-strong universe.
The universe at large couldn't possibly be anything other than indifferent to Christ, his birth, his passion, and his death."
In the movie “Contact,” when asked about the existence of other intelligent life in the universe, the character played by Jodi Foster says that it would be an awful waste of space if there wasn’t any. From Dawkins little story it might also be safe to say that for Christianity to be true, it would also mean an awful waste of space.
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