PositiveThe Wall Street JournalDavid Christian aims to be to tell us all we need to know about the universe and our place in it in 300 pages ... Science, he believes, can offer a \'new, global origin story that is as full of meaning, awe, and mystery\' as traditional creation myths. Even better, it will help us transcend nationalism and the \'fragmentation and meaninglessness\' endemic to modernity. ... Humans crave an origin story, he insists, a story of how they and their world came to be. But here, it seems to me, he makes a basic error. We crave origin stories because we want to know that our existence has meaning.
