Just like with your earlier post, I agree with almost everything you say. My one sticking point here is this: A Great Unknown exists with things in it that wil

Just like with your earlier post, I agree with almost everything you say. My one sticking point here is this: A Great Unknown exists with things in it that will highly interest us and affect our lives. "Things" in it? Hard to say. Depends on the definition of "things". Although I do agree that whatever the case we would likely have great interest in it. "and affect our lives" Not necessarily. And here, again, is a reason I'm led to believe you're theist. If you believe the height of conventional scientific wisdom then the universe will expand indefinitely, and we will simply be left more alone. To suggest that we are to be affected by something unknown is to take a position to the affirmative, as a theist would.