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a look at that long-exposure Hubble image of what was thought to be the emptiest region in space. Those galaxies are billions of light years away. One individual cannot take responsibility for their creation. God is a creation of this Universe, as much as we are.

To understand this, one must first separate oneself from one's self-imposed sense of importance that places oneself at the center of the Universe. In fact, our sun occupies a non-descript position near an outer edge of the spiral arm of this Milky Way about two thirds of the way around the galaxy. Nothing special here. There are more than a hundred billion suns in this galaxy alone, many just like ours, and no doubt many, many worlds that have life no better or worse than ours but not to say not just as interesting. I have rewritten the anthropic principle of the Universe being the way it is because we are here to observe it to state that the Universe is the way it is because if it were any different then that is the way that it would be, and there would still be somebody there to observe it. I believe that life is the rule rather than the exception and that it is determined to exist as long as there is a Universe to harbor it, wherever it can gain a foothold. To my mind, God is just somebody who has a billion years of evolution on us, and who had long ago discovered a way to evict all those corporeal and finite energies that limited him to his physical existence and to retain those spiritual energies that defined His identity with the potential to exist to all intent and purpose forever.

Imagine us, with all our technology and science, surviving and continuing to develop them for a billion more years. What will we not be capable of doing then?

God did not necessarily create us but quite likely intervened to encourage the life that exists here on planet Earth. Life must evolve because it must be hardy enough to adapt to the requirements of a unique environment and survive. The occasional shot of adrenalin doesn't hurt, though. That there is a God I have no doubt, because miracles do indeed occur, and humans have been visited by angels, and there is simply too much evidence to refute otherwise. God's objective is to inspire in as many as possible the creation and maintenance of their souls, which through cycles of transmigration will one day fully qualify themselves for eternal life in that spiritual realm with which we share this reality and where God exists with his angels and where there is work to be done.

That is not religion. Insomuch as science seeks to explain the truth of all things natural it is paramount to seek a practical answer to the questions that all religious people have concerning their lives and God's place in it. When all the illusions have been shed and we have finally earned the understanding of all things, religion will cease to be. Then, science will rule.

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