The immensity of the universe (The nature of a \'Creator\')

by David Turell , Thursday, September 17, 2015, 00:48 (3354 days ago) @ dhw

dhw:Could this cosmic coming and going really be purposefully directed towards some end? I can't help being equally sceptical at the idea that all this sprang from “nothing”, but that does not make it any easier to believe in a mind that can encompass hundreds of billions of galaxies. Far easier to believe in what is observable: namely, a vast expanse of energy and matter constantly changing as matter comes and goes, apparently undirected and purposeless.-I see lots of purpose. Humans are here and we can study the universe and understand it. Why should that have happened? The odds against that chance event are stupendous.
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> dhw: My agnostic balancing act demands acknowledgement that the astonishing complexity of living cells and cell communities makes it “easier to believe” in conscious design than in blind chance as the creative force. -The magnificent creation called the living cell, cries out for design.
 
> dhw: It seems to me that just as atheists wilfully close their eyes to the scale of life's complexity, theists close theirs to the scale of a universe in which our own planet is one of zillions of lumps of matter which in the course of time will disappear, seemingly with as little purpose as a grain of sand swirled away by the ocean.
 
The immensity of the universe I find is of no issue. It is the site of the creation of humans, and the place for human creativity. Perhaps its size is a requirement that we do not recognize.