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

by dhw, Thursday, October 22, 2015, 10:36 (3319 days ago) @ dhw

An article in today's Guardian has the headline “Solar wipeout hints at Earth's fate”:-QUOTE: “The destruction of a solar system has been captured for the first time by astronomers, who said the violent events provided a grim glimpse of Earth's ultimate fate.
Images from Nasa's Kepler 2 space mission reveal the rocky remains of a world being torn apart as it spirals around a dead star or white dwarf, in the constellation of Virgo, 570 light years away from Earth. [...]
Astronomers say it is possible that the star's death destabilised the orbit of a massive neighbouring planet so that smaller rocky worlds were kicked towards the star; being so close the searing heat would begin to vaporise them as the gravitational forces tore them apart. [...]”-It is the sheer immensity of the universe and the apparently impersonal process of materials forever appearing and disappearing that makes the concept of a single “universal mind" so difficult to accept. Do you truly believe there is a mind “within and without” the explosive destruction of a vast solar system 570 light years away - let alone a mind that created it all in order to produce humans?