We're the most arrogant generation in human history because we think that by

describing reality, we've explained it and we don't have a sense of wonder.

Look at the frontiers of science. We've had startling marvelous new discoveries

of outer space. And what many believe is the confirmation of the big bang theory

of the creation of the world. And I was excited, but I was really excited when

the Hubble spacecraft went up. That's really interesting to me. And I read the

paper two weeks ago. I was an arrester. I read it. My head and I called the

waitress over and I said, what's wrong with this? And I read it and it says,

the scientists have now discovered that matter was created when matter and

energy exploded. I said, what's the matter with that? We have matter being

created after it already was there. And now this, that won't work. And then I'm

running down the street and I listen to a news commentator who said, well, we've

got such and such as physicist, astrophysicist from University of Berkeley or

Arizona has declared that 15 billion years ago the universe exploded into being. It

exploded into being. What was it before it exploded? Non-being? It's a guy's

talking nonsense. Instead of modern man being like Newton and people of that

ilk in that generation who saw the task of the scientist as thinking God's

thoughts after them were the most arrogant generation in human history because

we think that by describing reality we've explained it. And we don't have a

sense of wonder. And we feel sorry for people like Moses and Abraham who are

some naive, so hopelessly primitive, so hopelessly pre-scientific. They see the

invisible hand of God behind every bush. I wish I could be that naive because the

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