On Mystery (Monkeys and the Multiverse)

A friend of mine, who knows I’m a sucker for reading things I don’t understand, sent me an article the other day entitled "Our Improbable Existence Is No Evidence For A Multiverse" from the online magazine Scientific American. I sort of understood it. But mainly it got me thinking about science and religion and especially about our ongoing relationship with what we do not know: what the Bible often calls "mystery" and what scientists sometimes calls "randomness." 

A thought: Without the ability to reckon with mystery, there is no human flourishing. Being a sane person means having the ability to deal healthily with the unknown and the unknowable--with God’s seeming “silence"--as Job did, and as Jesus did in the Garden of Gethsemane and on the cross. This tends to be especially hard for modern people (think: coronavirus). Nevertheless, if we can't, we're going to find ourselves in a world that is less and less...sane.

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