and music is close to the pure essence of human being to believe in god there's a man called richard dawkins there who is a very strong atheist i had a little kind of argument with him in one hundred minutes because he he kind of i think he felt that he proved there was no good and my feeling is that's not a very scientific attitude because if you if you make a pronouncement you have to have evidence so if you say there is no good where is the evidence there is no god you've spoken about the loneliness state you experience after it's performance. and sunny you know because i've spoken to a couple of astronauts and been to the moon for the past three days and they also speak of that fast loneliness that they experience when they're out there in space . say send music in your opinion give you that comfort of loneliness. you know maybe they do for a moment you know maybe ironically again maybe that's what makes you more aware of loneliness because you clearly it's content it's wonderful. togetherness we people are with the universe and then the reality is you lose it so maybe that's why many of

richard dawkins there who is a very strong atheist i had a little kind of argument with him in a hundred ninety minutes because he's he kind of i think he felt that he proved there was no good and my feeling is that's not a very scientific attitude because if you if you make a pronouncement you have good evidence if you say there is no good where's the evidence there is no good you can say i don't know you know being an agnostic to me is a scientific point of view and supportable but you know he's a very clever man he has a different point of view to me but in my experience i have felt at times that there is a god of some kind i don't subscribe to any religion organized religion that's a different matter but if your question is about good right there's a god but if there is a god we have very little idea of what god might be perhaps inherent in what we are we have very little understanding of. do you think we're alone out there. it's only opinion i have a strange feeling that maybe we are alone i don't know why this is you know but you know it's probably about the loneliness state you ex

even richard dawkins says if we put it on a scale of 1 to 7, 1 being absolutely certain there is a goding absolutely certain there is no god, even i'm a 6.9 because we don't know. >> piers: where are you? >> 6.9. >> piers: a tiny fragment thinks there could be a god. >> it could be a good or it could be a spaghetti monitor. >> piers: how did your parents react to your apagt yichl. >> i was scared to death of the whole process. all i could do to keep it together in church. when i was a young teenager, thankfully my father stopped going to church and that was the end of it. i was no longer any sort of catholic. then i went for many years not thinking about religion that much. i kind of believed in god, it was like when i was in trouble, i would bargain with him. god if you get me out of this, i promise i will quit smoking. >> piers: do you still do any of that? do you ever pray? >> pray? no. praying is trying to telepathically communicate with an imaginary friend. atheists don't pray. the past 15 or 20 years, that's been my view. >> piers: if you had prayed, would you pray for the kind o