This modern attitude is not without its pain. Since the discovery of the principle of interminacy in the first half of century, thoughtful western man has had a sense of loneliness in a vast, inscrutable universe. The world he thought he was so close to knowing completely has turned on him, closed the door, and left hum orphaned. Ordinary people have not understood the complexities of research that has led to this situation, but have felt keenly in their existence the sense of impending chaos that the discovery has introduced into the Western mind. What has not been apparent to Westerners, whether academic sophisticates or ordinary citizen, is that the movement has not been from a worldview shaped by religious presuppositions to a clear, factual, provable scientific one.
Modern man lives by faith as much as ancient man ever did.
There is, indeed, no other way to live, for man bears God's image and cannot live without some meaning-giving key in which he believes. What modern man has failed to perceive is that he has moved into the force field of an even greater myth than the ones that he now disdains. Earlier men, outside the enlightenment provided by God's self-revelation in the Bible, had erroneous worldviews, but at least they knew there were gods. Modern man has fallen victim to the worst and most powerful myth of all times, the myth that there is no god. A material world is all there is.