God is a cop out. This dawned on me as I was listening to an NPR broadcast of "To the Best of Our Knowledge" regarding finding spirituality while maintaining Atheism. I will Blog about that tomorrow or tonight if I have time (i was almost moved to tears by it...not kidding). But listening to all of these scientists talk about the wonder and awe they felt at the power and grandeur of the natural world, and how small it made them fell set my wheels spinning. Then one guy hit on the key for me. He essentially posed the question: isn't it more amazing to think that this world came into being from random happenstance and that molecules coalesced out of atoms and went on to create life, which over truly immense scales developed slowly but surely into us than it is to think that some god just popped everything into existence.
To my mind when religious people marvel at the presence of God and his majesty and scoff at science as leaving no more miracles in the world they a)have NO understanding of science and b) they simply can't handle the idea that the whole thing could be even bigger and more complicated than they ever imagined and they are not the center of attention. IT's a cop out to say God did this all, it shows you are too small to handle the idea that it might be bigger and more awesome than anything you can conceive of.
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