things that matter

If you’ve ever talked to an atheist about the purpose of life, at some point the direction of discussion takes a turn towards the vastness of the universe and the largeness of objects inside it. There are objects in the Universe that are a billion times larger than our Sun, and the size of the entire universe is infinitely large as well.  In this scheme of sizes, our own size as a human being, or even the size of our little Earth seems very utterly insignificant.  And so the atheist wonders, how can we have any  significant  purpose or meaning if our being is so unbelievably tiny in an unimaginably gigantic universe? This is the very obvious and sensible reaction of anyone who can seriously grasp the true grandness of the universe we live in. However, the hugeness of the universe is just one side of the story.  The other side of the story  is the  minuteness: We do not just live alongside objects that are terrifyingly large but we live alongside objects that are terrifyingly  small, to