Cosmology: milky way size is enormous (Introduction)

by dhw, Tuesday, June 04, 2019, 10:40 (2001 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: […] With regard to galaxies, I don’t have a problem with your history of the Milky Way. I’m asking why you think he designed all the other, wrong-sized galaxies which, according to the article, are too small to produce life.

DAVID: What you are really asking is why the universe is so huge? I have no idea. In two billion years we are supposed to meet and join Andromeda. Life won't survive that.

It’s all very well to focus on the one galaxy we know has produced life, and to claim that your God must have designed it, but I am specifically asking why, if your always-in-total-control God’s sole purpose was to create H. sapiens, he specially designed vast numbers of galaxies that are too small to produce life. One of the problems we all have to face is the seemingly impersonal nature of this vast universe, with its infinite amounts of matter constantly changing, celestial bodies coming and going with no discernible purpose, for ever and ever. Even you suggest that your God is hidden. The seeming impersonality of the huge universe can also suggest that your God doesn’t exist. Hence the agnostic’s dilemma.