There is beauty and wonder and awe, but no comfort. The universe is not a friendly place, it is worse than hostile, it is indifferent. It is not out to get you, it just doesn't care, it doesn't even know you're there. But it is still a beautiful place, and like a completely gracious, perfectly lovely yet totally distant and unattainable woman, I still can't keep my eyes off her, and I can still love her.
For others, perhaps the majority of us, the universe is something to be used, exploited, bent to our will. Knowledge of its mysteries need only be limited to what is needed to manipulate it, to extract and take from it. For these folks, it is natural that they believe that the universe has some kind of obligation, a duty, to take care of them. They feel entitled to it.
After all, the universe exists only to serve them.
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There's no solace in science for me.
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- Science and religion (originally from Mysteries of the Multiverse)
- Questions
- Until I was about 12 I believed in god.
- Curiosity killed the cat, religion kills curiosity....
- That is a pretty narrow purpose for religion, that you and your friend agreed to!
- My friend Barbara observes:
- There's no solace in science for me.
- For me, science satisfies my awe more than religion does.