I caught the last sentence (or thereabouts) on Quirks and Quarks, the CBC radio science programme, this past Saturday morning. The physicist Bob MacDonald interviewed was (as far as I could tell) talking about the various theories about the origins of the universe. His last sentence was something like, “And none of them require a Creator in order to be true.” Which left me thinking, well, St. Thomas Aquinas would agree.

This fellow, who was far smarter than I, seemed to have come to a conclusion that Christian theologians (should) already accept–namely, the natural world can and and even should be explained without recourse to the divine. “God” is not a stopgap in human ignorance. So, welcome to this particular ledge of the mountain. We’ve been here since, oh about 1200AD or so. We’re waiting for others–both believers and not–to join us.