How do we avoid going down an evolutionary cul-de-sac without knowing it, which every other species has done? Ironically evolutionary biologists have no advice on avoiding evolutionary cul-de-sacs. So you really need to think like a god, to cope at all! But to adopt the vision of The Creator, means being reconciled with Him. And the essence of the Book of Job is that you need the comfort of God within, to face the terrible presence of God without. Or as St. Paul puts it, we have not sufficiency of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God. You can try to avoid the fear of God without, by saying He does not exist; but a knowledge of Jung’s work on archetypes and the collective unconscious suggests you have to be far gone in delusion to do so. The great myth of Christianity is that God became Man, so that Man might become God. Indeed it is hardly surprising the Creator insists that His spirit alone is capable of solving the problems mankind has made for itself? And who would have guessed the Almighty had the urbanity to invite a reconciliation, as an alternative to Man extinguishing himself?

But God never does Man’s work for him. So is it possible once again to re-create a religious view of Nature and the Universe, this time on a realistic basis?