Between the Infinite and the Infinitesimal: A Scientist’s Search for the Fulcrum of Faith

“The universe is not a place where evolution happens, it is the evolution happening. It is not a stage on which drama unfolds, it is the unfolding drama itself.”

If we awoke each day remembering that we are the product of 13.8 billion years of chance events, subatomic subtleties, and violent cosmic collisions beyond our control, beyond our complete understanding, beyond the time horizon of consciousness itself, we might orient differently to our days. We might begin to relinquish the central or...