Science has demonstrated and we have to have had to accept it, that our home, the earth, is just another planet circling the sun; and that our sun is just one of a hundred billion stars in a galaxy that is just one of billions of visible galaxies.
And it is now becoming evident that the whole expanding cloud of galaxies is just a small part of a much larger multiverse, most of whose parts, it is suspected, are utterly inhospitable to life.
The Religious theory that we are here on Earth and it’s all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems, well, shall we say, is deeply provincial and wholly inadequate.
My own feelings on this are not despair at my insignificance, but a sense of gratitude
that through humankinds' efforts, from Galileo onwards Science has now reached such a plateau that we can wonder about the vast celestial magnificence of it all, even if it may be indifferent to us.
Scientific explanations have cast increasing doubt on the special role of man, as an actor created by God to play a starring part in a great cosmic drama of sin and salvation. Science has truly put this narrative to the rack.
My own feelings on this are not despair at my insignificance, but a sense of gratitude
that through humankinds' efforts, from Galileo onwards Science has now reached such a plateau that we can wonder about the vast celestial magnificence of it all, even if it may be indifferent to us.
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