When viewed through the combined lens of Genesis and Einstein, Jesus’s claim to be “the light of the world”, rather than the space or time of the world, takes on an unexpected depth.
Oddly enough, it was the recent excitement about extraterrestrial life that sent me back to the opening chapter of Genesis. I greatly enjoyed Prof Hannah Fry’s explanation of why contact with alien civilisations is so unlikely. Even if intelligent life exists elsewhere, the speed of light and the vast timescales over which civilisations emerge and disappear make meaningful contact extraordinarily improbable.
