LETTERS

摘要

I agree with Mary-Jane Rubenstein that we do not need to choose between God and the multiverse and that we should think differently about what is sacred (19/26 December 2015, p 64). The problem, it seems to me, is that to define what is sacred defines, by default, what is not sacred - what is profane or mundane. Surely, it is that which has contributed so largely to our sad, violent history, and given us a licence to exploit our world with no sense of respect; which in turn has led us to our current ecological crisis. But whether we look at it from a scientific or Western religious perspective, it has never made sense to split up the universe in this way. Perhaps the most basic assumption of science is that the universe - everything - is one coherent whole. The body of scientific knowledge we have built sees any potential divergence from that as a problem.