The outer space epic Interstellar is a ‘don’t miss’ movie, Time reported recently.

Its review of the film starts as follows: “There is no reason at all you should care about the universe. For one thing, it doesn’t care a whit about you.

“It’s huge, it’s cold, it’s soulless. It’s possessed of forces that would rip you to ribbons the second you dared to step off the tiny planetary beachhead it has permitted us.”

Sooner or later, Christians have to come to terms with the fact that we live in an impersonal universe.

As Richard Tarnas wrote in The Passion of the Western Mind: “It is starkly implausible that the universe as a whole should have any pressing interest in this minute part of its immensity – if it has any ‘interests’ at all.”