303 | AMA | February 2025

4872.662 - 4891.509 Sean Carroll

When one sees children killed by bombs or suffering from horrible incurable diseases or learns about life in crushing dictatorships or poverty, one yearns for some cosmic justice that those who suffered will be made whole one day and that all the suffering wasn't just a hideous waste. These are the moments when I would be most inclined to religion, probably as a form of wishful thinking.