True to his instincts, Phil Boas turns a discussion about the new Webb telescope into a partisan divide, a struggle between atheists, who are bad, and believers, who are really good people struggling with the truth. It's the same intellectually moribund argument that mankind has struggled, killed and died for since the beginning of time. Phil himself falls victim because he has trapped himself in the language, a trap fallen into by the majority of religions and belief systems over the centuries. As a journalist he should realize it is all in the words themselves. The limits of our language are the limits of our world and our thinking. Phil describes us as "infinitesimally small." Scientifically, we are the size we are because of the size of the universe. It cannot be any other way. Religion invented angels and devils, heaven and hell, the "primum mobile" and burned you at the stake upside down naked if you dared question the virgin birth. The closed minds of conservative religious thinkers opted for certainty where there was none and they were willing to kill for it.

As he struggles to find adequate words to describe the latest discoveries, Phil retreats into his own confusion, falling back on Sagan's comment that we are a "lonely speck in a great dark." We are not. We bathe in the light. Loneliness is a construct. Our carbon atoms are the building blocks of this great universe which has challenged us to see it. We are not distinct from the universe. We are the universe.The wonder and the joy of new knowledge from the Webb telescope will shed a great light for generations to come. Truth is the guiding light of understanding. Ignorance and lies force us back into the darkness. We must all be prepared to learn and change our thinking. The scientists, who built Webb and made it possible, used reason not faith. Their faith was their reason. At the same time we are human and any human who does not look out at the night sky or the new photos from Webb with a sense of wonder and awe, does not experience its joy, has missed the most important religious, spiritual and human experience that has ever existed. Finding the right words will always be the challenge.