I don't buy the we're smarter than we've ever been argument. It sounds very much like the religious people who feel certain of witnessing the end of the world.

I don't buy the we're smarter than we've ever been argument. It sounds very much like the religious people who feel certain of witnessing the end of the world. > Einstein had a strong feeling for the presence of awe and wonder at the far horizon of the cosmos and saw evidence for the existence of a unifying, rational presence in the mathematical order of the cosmos. But since then the universe of theoretical physics has become random, complex, paradoxical, and barren of divine presence. At least the atheist brigade remains constant. That's a comfort.