Sounds to me like we approach this from precisely the same viewpoint.
I, not being an Infinite Being, cannot presume to know through what means the Creator brought the universe to being.
steven jay gould, presuming vaingloriously to be a Being of Infinite Vision, however, is quite certain in the nonexistence of God and holds forth with The Greatest Certitude that evidence of evolution is proof that faith in God is folly.
I've read some of his work, I find his intellectual vision mypoic in the extreme, but what carries his work to marketability is an overweening pridefulness which evokes mental images of fleets of dirigibles supporting a vast fat head.
No, I dont KNOW how God made me and you, it is an act of faith that I believe. Just as gould beleives in the nonexistence of God through an identical leap of faith.
It is just amusing that he is too ignorant to recognize his religion as such.
The nonexistence of God is evident in the reality of daily life on this planet. And please don't bring up the "free will" red herring...babies, the mentally disabled, and animals don't have free will and they suffer just as much and just as often as the rest of us...give me a break...
It has been long proven by minds much greater than his pea-brain that neither science nor philosophy can disprove God's existence. Nevertheless being an atheist perhaps due to moral failings, which he clearly has since he calls people who quote him liars, perhaps due to the good pay, he claims he can disprove God's existence.