捷克共和國的總統哈維爾(Vaclav Havel)，最近曾說：「全球性責任的迫切危機，原則上言，是因為我們不再確定，宇宙…有明確的意義與目標的事實。」我個人極為同意這個看法，如果我們不再信任宇宙基本上，是一超越目標的開展，我們對倫理的期望，對生命的熱誠，終必如藤草般的枯萎。今天，我相信我們需要以新的方法，拾回宇宙目標的宗教意義。宇宙的存在有其原因，這觀點的合理性，與宗教的未來，有深刻的聯繫。問題在於我們是否能容納這種宏觀，而不與自然科學的發現相反。本論文藉著一些科學素養深厚的宗教思想家，如：保郎尼(Michael Polanyi)、德日進(Teihlard de Chardin)、懷海德(Alfred North Whitechead)等人的思想，推証我們的看法：我們可以合理地以自然科學的發現為跳板，建立一個史無前例的、更浩瀚、更富生機的、有其終極意義的宇宙。

Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, recently stated that “the crisis of the much-needed global responsibility is in principle due to the fact that we have lost the certainty that the Universe…has a definite meaning and follows a definite purpose.” I would hasten to agree that if we fail to trust that the cosmos is, at heart, the unfolding of a transcending purpose, our ethical aspirations and our zest for life will eventually wither on the vine. Today, I believe we need to recapture in a fresh way the religious sense of a purposeful universe. The future of religion is, in a very deep sense, tied to the plausibility of the idea that the universe is here for a reason. The question, however, is whether we can we embrace such a sweeping idea without contradicting the discoveries of science. Yet, I shall argue here, with the help of such scientifically enlightened religious thinkers as Michael Polanyi, Teilhard de Chardin and Alfred North Whitechead, that we may plausibly view the discoveries of natural science as a springboard toward a wider and more vibrant sense of an ultimately meaningful universe than has ever been available to us before.