Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

This statement is not intended to reflect the hopeless pessimism that grips the atheist, whose cosmos is meaningless and, like himself as part of it, is headed for oblivion. It is simply a fact—and it is a fact with which the atheist can only concur. Richard Dawkins expresses it like this:

“Fred Hoyle’s own science of astronomy puts us in our place, metaphorically as well as literally, scaling down our vanity to fit the tiny stage on which we play out our lives—our speck of debris from the cosmic explosion.”