Science at least, provides a vast store of empirical and rational knowledge about the physical world, but the more I learned about the scientific vision of the universe, the more meaningless it all seemed. As I learned later in life, I wasn’t alone in this conclusion. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg wrote in his book The First Three Minutes: “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” And the late evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould wrote in his book Ever Since Darwin, “Evolution is purposeless, nonprogressive, and materialistic.”
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