Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

Our future? Hawking dares to ask this present generation to sacrifice its time, money, effort, and present enjoyment to invest in the survival of hypothetical generations so far in the future that they may never exist? Could the desire to contribute to such incredible philanthropy be the result of unthinking, unfeeling evolutionary forces, which care nothing about wiping us all out in the interest of evolutionary progress? Why should we care, anyway, when human life is merely an accident and the energy that supposedly spawned us couldn’t care less?