Our shared future

Anne Adams explores

by Anne Adams 19th August 2011

‘When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers,  the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained; What is man that thou art mindful of him?’  A good question – not to mention the wonderful diversity of species and habitats with their intricate webs of networks and relationships about which we are still largely ignorant. I was excited to find that, in their work, both Thomas Berry, a Roman Catholic, and Michael Meacher, a secular searcher after truth, try to answer this question in rather similar ways. Both tell the story of the cosmos and the whole development from the ‘Big Bang’ to the arrival of humans, which involves an almost unimaginable length of time, and an amazing amount of energy and inventiveness.