Philosophy and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy edited by Nicholas Joll – review in The Guardian

The Meaning of Life: A tribute to the late Douglas Adams – Philosophy Now

Douglas Adams – Where Does the Idea of God Come from? – Philosophy Monkey

Douglas Adams: Analysing the Absurd by Margaretha Aletta van der Colff, A dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts

Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.  The argument goes something like this:

I refuse to prove that I exist,’ says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.’
`But,’ says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn’t it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED.’
`Oh dear,’ says God, `I hadn’t thought of that,’ and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.”