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Originally Posted by Frosstbyte
If something exists capable of creating a universe as infinitely complex as ours is, I find it astonishingly difficult to believe that it cares about six billion members of one species on a small blue green planet orbiting a nondescript mid-phase star. You realize there are more than twenty times the number of galaxies (observable) in our universe than there are human beings on earth? "All of human history" is the tiniest blip in the "BIG" picture that it's hardly worth mentioning.
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That viewpoint sounds more nihilistic than humble, to me.
What if this great, big universe was created by God for the sole purpose of hosting mankind? Why, I once read a science article that theorized and gave evidence to support that our universe
needs to be as enormous, and as teeming with stars and planets, as it is, in order to contain at least one solar system and planet suitable for human life. I've read other articles (again, scientific ones, not religious) that theorize and give evidence to support that we are probably the only intelligent life in this universe.
But even if we aren't, I see no conflict with a God capable of creating a vast and complex universe, and still deeply caring about the human beings on "a small blue green planet orbiting a nondescript mid-phase star".
Whatever, this very issue has already been addressed in the Bible, and more than once. Here's one example...
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Originally Posted by Psalm 8:3-8
When I look at the night sky and see the work of Your fingers —
the moon and the stars You set in place —
what are mere mortals that You should think about them,
human beings that You should care for them?
Yet You made them only a little lower than the angels
and crowned them with glory and honor.
You gave them charge of everything You made,
putting all things under their authority —
the flocks and the herds
and all the wild animals,
the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea,
and everything that swims the ocean currents.
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