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The picture of the universe presented by astronomy is one of dismal stretches of time and space and unparalled desolation. In the eternal abyss of space — bleak, cold, and dark — there are no signs of a Cosmic Consciousness.

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Out of the star-dust man came, and into it he will sink again, as oblivious of his own passing existence as he was before that existence painfully and slowly evolved and separated him, for one brief instant, from the blindly-groping Whole.

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And what must we think of this alleged intelligence in the skies, which after toiling for billions of years, produces nothing more imposing than the equivalent of six specks of dust in a great railroad terminal?

Woolsey Teller

Woolsey Teller

Woolsey Teller

Born: March 22, 1890

Died: March 11, 1954 (aged 63)

Bio: Woolsey Teller was an American Atheist writer. He was an associate editor of The Truth Seeker of New York City, where his cousin Charles Lee Smith was editor. He wrote The Atheism of Astronomy, and Essays of an Atheist.

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