The renowned NASA astronomer and agnostic Robert Jastrow understood as much. He wrote that for the unbelieving scientist, confronted by the evidence of fine-tuning and a cosmic beginning, “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.”19
