Thought for the day

"In the inability to answer questions about the origin of the Big Bang or to even conceptualize questions about the origination of the 'laws of nature, there's a conceptual opening.  I don't know if it's an opening for a God, and if it is, it doesn't... seem much like the God of the major monotheisms..., but it's an opening for 'something.'  In the vastness of time and space, and in the light of the recognition of our relative insignificance and mortal conclusion, you can see how someone might be tempted by such a 'something,' and might further be tempted to think of it as a 'Higher Something.'" --- Stan Persky, Reading the 21st Century (2011) at pp. 174-75.