The more science is telling us about the history of the universe and human biology, the more moronic is our holding on to the religious view of our importance. Hear Steven Weinberg:
We have had to accept that our home, the earth, is just another planet circling the sun; our sun is just one of a hundred billion stars in a galaxy that is just one of billions of visible galaxies; and it may be that the whole expanding cloud of galaxies is just a small part of a much larger multiverse, most of whose parts are utterly inhospitable to life. As Richard Feynman has said, “The theory that it’s all arranged as a stage of God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.” (Quoted from “Without God,” by Steven Weinberg, The New York Review of Books, September 25, 2008, p. 73.)
For brief biographies of Seven Weinberg and Richard Feynman, click here and here.
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