Neglect - how atheism roused the ultimate demon

Following on the heels of the scientific revolution, The Enlightenment celebrated the power of human reason to make sense of the natural world, which undermined faith in our traditional religions. In the euphoria that accompanies success, some suggested that because we could understand the workings of the universe there was no room for God, never pausing to question why God could not be, at least in part, understandable. Even though this non-sequitur was rejected by most enlightenment thinkers, it took root in the popular imagination and spawned atheism. 

Is the universe meaningless?

Influential scientists, like Lawrence M. Krauss, insist that the universe is meaningless, or as Nobel physicist Steven Weinberg put it, “the more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.”1 Furthermore, scientists have drawn an arbitrary line between the living and the inanimate roughly at the level of the virus, the principal characteristic of a living thing being that it reproduces itself.