A Cosmological Crisis? A Review of Nasser Zakarayia, The Final Story: Science, Myth, and Beginnings

Abstract

n Maps of Time, David Christian describes the narrative of Big History as “a modern ‘Dreaming’ – a coherent account of how we were created and how we fit into the scheme of things.”1 Yet, he adds more recently, that narrative “is far from complete, and . . . may need to incorporate the insights of older origin stories about how to live well and how to live sustainably.”2 The discussion of this narrative and how to strengthen it has swirled through every IBHA conference since the first, in 2012. More recently, it was the subject of a special issue of the IBHA Journal. For anyone who wants to understand this discussion more fully, I can’t recommend Nasser Zakariya’s A Final Story highly enough.