Drill deep into the heart of matter, and we do not bump into God. Peer outward to the edge of the big bang, and we do not find God. But what we do find is beauty, and plenty of it, all the way down and all the way out. Granted, this is not the obvious beauty of a double rainbow. It builds over time. It takes work. It fills the imagination with light and space and mathematics and existence. But does it fill us with God? With holiness? .....