The universe fascinates us. With ever more precise physical methods, we are learning to penetrate ever deeper into its past, its complex mechaisms and dimensions. The larger the universe
the smaller we feel as human beings, as a "speck of dust in the vastness of space".
As human beings, we do not simply stand in amazement before the findings of astrophysics, for example, but rather they have an effect on our image of man and God: Are we not currently becoming increasingly aware of what we are gambling away if we - for example in view of the global ecological crisis - put the future of the earth at risk? Is there even a new kind of "reverence" for a universal God?
Creative power in view of the immense size and time dimension of the universe?
The prominent astrophysicist and natural philosopher Harald Lesch will give a lecture on these questions. Afterwards, he will talk with philosopher Wilhelm Vossenkuhl about the tense relationship between nature and the humanities.
