For Many, To Live In A Universe

The Illusion Of Purpose And Design Is Perhaps The Most Pervasive Illusion About Nature That Science Has To Confront On A Daily Basis.

In This Sense, Science, As Physicist Steven Weinberg Has Emphasized, Does Not Make It Impossible To Believe In God, But Rather Makes It Possible To Not Believe In God.

Of Course, Supernatural Acts Are What Miracles Are All About. They Are, After All, Precisely Those Things That Circumvent The Laws Of Nature. A God Who Can Create The Laws Of Nature Can Presumably Also Circumvent Them At Will. Although Why They Would Have Been Circumvented So Liberally Thousands Of Years Ago, Before The Invention Of Modern Communication Instruments That Could Have Recorded Them, And Not Today, Is Still Something To Wonder About.

I Like To Say That While Antimatter May Seem Strange, It Is Strange In The Sense That Belgians Are Strange. They Are Not Really Strange; It Is Just That One Rarely Meets Them.

Science Is Not Just There For Technology. It's Part Of What Addressing Who You Are In The Universe And Understanding Your Place In The Cosmos. Good Art, Good Literature, Good Music - All Of That Is For That And Science Is A Part Of It.