Awake in a dead universe

If the philosophy of materialism were correct, man would be a personal being living in an impersonal universe.

Quotes and comments;

1. ''The fact man is a person and a personality isolates him from ultimate reality. It leaves him awake in a dead universe..." [1.]

- Secular man sees himself as a person in an impersonal universe. He can't find an explanation for this anomaly, but he's sure that one exists. (Don't all the books on creativity tell the reader to assume that the answer exists, and that all he has to do is discover it?)

The Christian sees himself as a person in a personal universe, and as such is not isolated from ultimate reality. The universe isn't a strange (foreign) place, but a home that was created and crafted with him in mind.

Secular man on the other hand, cannot help but see himself as an alien. (i.e. alienated) Without God life can only seem a very strange (unexplainable) thing. (It would be normal to be a planet or a moon, but not to be a living, breathing, being; and one with a profound consciousness of his situation.)

Is this behind the fascination with aliens? Is the SETI project (etc.) at heart a projection of this feeling of being an alien? Having rejected God man has become alienated from the universe, and seeks a sign that his fear he's all alone isn't true. He seeks a sign that he was correct in his intuition of a godless universe. If aliens are found (other than himself of course) then he feels that the universe won't feel as strange anymore, and his doubts will be quelled.

Secular man is the only alien we know of, and he's projected himself onto (into) the heavens. Looking into the splintered mirror of Humanism he sees himself everywhere. (He wants to find aliens, but he's afraid of them finding him; for he knows that should they exist it will be hard to be the God he now imagines himself to be.)

Notes;
1. Noble Savages - R. J. Rushdoony p. 70. (Available online at Chalcedon.edu; originally titled 'The politics of pornography')
- He's speaking about the modern humanistic worldview.
2. Van Til would deny that this is possible, but if there is no God, man is alone in the universe. At some level he will feel that loneliness, and will feel lonely to the extent he is sure god does not exist. (I doubt if any man is 100 percent sure God does not exist.) Modern man seeks to assuage this loneliness in the pages of SF, but it seems like cold comfort to me. (FTL travel seems as impossible as Darwinism to me.) It's an attempt to shield himself from the cold and to keep himself warm by the storytelling fire.
3. R. speaks of ways modern man tries to escape the alienation of personality; e.g. in pornography. (I think we see in drugs a desire to escape personality.) In the world of porn man becomes a thing or a beast. and escapes the problems and pains of personhood.
4. For Van Til, the belief one lives in a personal universe has an effect on one's consciousness.
5. That secular man feels alienated from the universe can be seen in recent examples of sf novels that feature mankind building not merely new worlds, but new universes. (e.g. Karl Schroeder) Most of these 'universes' are of a micro sort; but still, they're self-contained and independent entities, and especially designed for men to live in. I see this as unspoken (unrealized?) desire for the universe described in Genesis. Because of who he is, and what is nature is, man cannot help but find the picture of a created universe (created as a home) appealing.