Meeting God In The Middle

When Nietzsche proclaimed “God Is Dead” with his seminal philosophical work, he had a point. The “God of the gaps” theory was being dismantled with every new discovery. Automatic laws determined the ways things were, no God was necessary. When Soviet propaganda boasted that their man went to space and did not encounter God, they were drawing on images of heaven being in the sky. When God was not there, this idea too lost all of its weight.

Several philosophers, scientists, and comedians have...