Note: This article was cited within the New York Times (July 22, 2018) as an counter that is intellectual the emerging religion of “Ancient Aliens.”

The Grand Design (2012), Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow claimed that “philosophy is dead” (p in the book. 5). They wrote: “We exist but also for a short while, as well as in that time explore but a little part of the universe that is whole. But humans are a species that are curious. We wonder, we seek answers. Surviving in this world that is vast is by turns kind and cruel, and gazing during the immense heavens above, people have always asked a variety of questions: just how can we understand the world by which we find ourselves? How can the universe behave? What is the nature of reality? Where d > philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics.” (p. 5).

Needless to say, philosophy is still alive in academic journals, Amazon books, plus the shrinking philosophy section at the Barnes & Noble bookstores. But, as a force in popular culture, contemporary philosophy is essentially dead, primarily since it has neglected to keep pace because of the discoveries in contemporary cosmology. Within the wake associated with stunning achievements of this Apollo program and also the Hubble Space Telescope (just two examples), philosophy has neglected to generate a well known cosmic narrative that integrates the origins and destinies for the human species into the vast and wondrous cosmos—an expanding universe stretching across 100 billion light years and populated with 2 trillion galaxies and untold numbers of stars, planets, lifeforms, and black holes. This death began using the crash of Apollo 8 and Earthrise.

This cosmic and failure that is philosophical ev >2001: a place Odyssey (1968) and Interstellar (2014), Hollywood populates the expanding universe with endless monsters (ex: the Alien series) and apocalyptic warfare (ex: Star Wars), complimented by hardly any awe, wonder, and discovery. The recent Star Trek films are not too distinctive from Star Wars. Here we are fifty years after Apollo and thirty years after the Hubble telescope, and the dominant ideologies are nevertheless situated in cosmic narcissism and human super-specialness—pretending to end up being the center regarding the universe or under the delusion that a Creator or Ancient Aliens are looking out for us.

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