Have you ever thought about how you got here?
Does your existence make you ponder questions of life?
Aside from the obvious, that you were born into this, go back farther in time and consider how “this” got here for you to be born into it. And what had to happen for you to even be born. It’s pretty miraculous, don’t you think?
Look at the image above of earth from space. Can you see people on the surface? You can’t because of the scale of the image and the distance from Earth’s surface this picture was taken. People are too small to see with the naked eye at that distance. Does that make you feel small? Space is very vast. When you consider the size of the physical universe we are just one tiny part of it. Yet our lives are so complex.
If you contemplate what it took for all of this to form, it’s mind boggling. The size of the universe alone is staggering. It’s mystifying to think of the greatness of whoever created it, if it was indeed created.
Two Branches of Thought
Two disciplines cover our origins. There is the Science perspective and the Religious perspective.
Science says we got here by the “Big Bang“. Religion says we were created by God.
Suppose God is a fairy tale and what science postulates is right. Statistically that leaves us with an amazing coincidence and random, accidental happenstance. It actually takes more faith to believe all of this happened out of nothing than to believe an intelligent, invisible life form we call God created it. Either idea takes faith to believe in it.
The Big Bang postulates it all randomly happened due to the right circumstances.
But suppose both are right. What if God created it all on some kind of cosmic drafting table and then used the Big Bang to set it into motion?
Consider all of the life on earth. Think about how it all has to work together for life to exist. Many scientists agree that some kind of intelligence had to be behind the creation of the physical universe. There is something or someone that thought it through and came up with the intelligent design behind it all.
Yet, when you think about it there is no physical evidence to support the idea of an invisible force or being that thought all this up. Or is there?
Explore our thoughts and ideas about the physical evidence leading to the feasibility of an invisible creator. We get lots of exposure to science in school, so why not explore the question, “Why is God invisible?”
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