described human beings as “inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal.”6 Bertrand Russell said we were merely “accidental collocations of atoms.”7 The question of human significance in the cosmos, however, is not finally a purely scientific question. When God is factored out of the equation, however, nearly anything goes. Brannon Braga, one of the producers of the newly revised 2013 and recent 2019 remake of Carl Sagan’s 1980 PBS series Cosmos, which Tyson