As Carl Sagan wrote in The Demon-Haunted World (Ballantine Books, 1997): Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of

In celebration of that momentous centenary, Ernest Barnes, the bishop of Birmingham, delivered a commemorative sermon to a large audience at Liverpool Cathedral. “The most astonishing fact in the whole picture of . . . scientific progress,” Barnes said, “is man himself. The modern astronomer thinks in terms of thousands of millions of years and liv

This new story connects us with life and the Universe, placing us as part of a biosphere that exists only because the Universe has allowed us to be,