Don’t give up your miracle is on the way
1. The medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas reasoned that the universe must have a First Cause, to which he assigned the name God.
2. Modern physicists in their way are likewise in search of a First Cause. (…)
A useful proxy for the First Cause is energy. (…) Yet no one thinks energy bears any resemblance to God in the traditional religious sense. It has neither knowledge nor will. It’s not a person. It doesn’t summon us to paradise or command us to embrace the good and shun evil. It provides our lives with no meaning. It’s just there.
photo { Christiane Wöhler Friedebach }
