dhw: Dark matter, inflationary theory, the big bang, string theory, multiverses and God are all theories based on this, that and the other, and none of them may be true. Like everyone else, I am groping in the dark, but I think it is admirable that we all go on doing so, although I do wish the more dogmatic theorists – scientific, philosophical, theistic and atheistic – would humbly acknowledge that their main support is a white stick.

What is amazing, to paraphrase Davies, is we are here to try and figure it out. Why?