In God and the Astronomers, agnostic astronomer Robert Jastrow considers whether the big bang points toward a cosmic designer. He closed his book with these famous words, which also seem fitting for the conclusion of this chapter: “For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”18
