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I don't know why I bother, but
let's expore something, shall we?
The proliferation of atheist literature occured during the times of Newton & Descartes when science figured that it really could reduce the world into parts in a machine that could all be monitored & controlled at will. It actuality what they hit upon was interdependence, but they failed to see it as such; in arrogant fashion, the Cartesian belief stated the exact opposite really. Although the formulas worked well enough to launch an industrial revolution, they broke down on the ultimate level & did not function in space inside a vacuum. Pascal was one of the very few physicist dissenters back then. Religion, as a result of all this explosion in science, took a big hit. The zeitgeist of the age can be summed up with the announcement that "God is Dead" by Nietzsche.
As a by-product of relativity in the early 20th century, science brought about the atomic age, the computer age, & the space age. With Einstein, with quantum physics, & all the applications therefrom being an influence on all of the sciences, we also now understand the the planet is composed of living systems. These systems are all interdependent on one another to form the, if you will, Gaia, and the one system: the ecosystem.
Similarily, by the Law of Conservation of Matter & Energy which reminds us that all the energy in the universe equals exactly zero & that matter can be neither created nor destroyed, but only changes from one form to another, we can then conceive of the universe itself being a huge oneness that we see as composed of by innumerable parts that obey the laws of the whole. The speed of particles through space is even intertwined with the constant of the speed of Light itself. The mass of particles & their distance from lesser particles determine orbits of revolution. This organization exists on the macroscopic & microscopic & all levels. It may astound one to learn that all atoms are mostly composed of empty space. What to us seems so solid because it's "solid" is actually bound by energy. (all those light speed orbits all at once)
This is one of the things that illustrates how quantum physics, while refining everything that Descartes & Newton did to perfection, also raises a lot of new questions as our understanding increases, & that as it turns out, God is not dead after all.
Gravitation & the speed of light, for instance, are constants that order the universe. I will also assert that Eternity is a constant & hehee, if there's time in Eternity, it's measured by the Big Bangs & the Big Crunches.
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