Imagine a world in which, as the writer of the Hebrew Bible book of Judges describes it, God does not speak.  It is a world devoid of any communication from the outside, without a word of input from the divine, a world in which any external thinking is oddly absent.
     Not so bad, some may say, given that God may not exist, anyway.  And even if he did, why do we need thoughts from him?
     Most of us, this argument might go, seem to have gotten along fairly well in the course of the many millennia of humanity's adventures on this planet.  Sure, there have been bumps, some rather large, but overall humanity has survived, even thrived.  Generally speaking, humanity is better off than it has ever been.
     This may well be true.  We have not experienced a global war in nearly seventy years, life spans are increasing, some formerly devastating diseases are declining, planetary wealth is growing.  What we do not know, however, is how little or much God had to do with this.  If we say nothing at all, how can we prove it?
     Yet if we say everything (or close to it), what is our evidence?  Just this:  if there is no God, we really do not know why--even if we know how--we are here.  Why did our lives happen?  If we say that they "just happened," we attach to them a profound sense of meaninglessness and oblivion.  An origin in nothingness is precisely that:  nothingness.
     Put another way, if God did not speak, if the divine did not communicate itself, we're living a life in a world that cannot explain why, we communicative beings that we are, communicate at all.  Nothing comes from nothing.
     Enjoy the speech of God.