(October 30, 2014 at 10:48 am)ChadWooters Wrote: The awe and wonder of the universe and our rare and tenuous existence make us all the more precious.
True, but that's no reason to emotionally accept the anthropocentric position that we are some sort of desired result or end goal of the physical laws of the universe.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell