The core of the speech is more apropos than ever. As anyone following the bestseller list can attest, atheism is big business, and the big atheists — Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens — all argue that science and reason confirm a singularly important truth: God does not exist. Nature does not proclaim the glory of God, they insist; instead, science unambiguously declares His absence. But for Benedict, the faith of the modern atheist results from having inherited a stunted view of science, one rooted in a correspondingly shrunken view of reason. If we open reason up to its natural and original proportions, then the glory of God shows through His creation.

Source : InsideCatholic.com.