The Creator Is In the Details

If we want to know God (assuming he exists), we've looked to the wrong people for far too long. The prophets of old are unreliable, focused on tedious rules and unaware of the myriad contradictions they held, such as a loving God who compensates purposeful mass extinctions of human beings with rainbows. No, the West's holy books belittle God, and contain only tiny glimpses of his true majesty. Where then should we look? The scientist. The scientist is the one who is systematically revealing the majesty of God's omnipotence.

Think about the atom, with it's 99.99999% empty space, which is the basic building block of all matter in the universe. Somehow, every beast, human, mountain, and nebula is composed of 99.99999% empty space, held together by a near unfathomable system of electromagnetic forces that are orders of magnitude stronger than the force of gravity which pulls entire planets. This is truly wondrous, and puts the tedious God of the Old Testament to shame. If we could just step back and appreciate the world as it is and as we continue to discover it, rather than imprison ourselves in our futile attempts to corral our fellow human beings under one umbrella of behavorial rules that will supposedly lead us to the next world, we'd be far better off. This world certainly isn't one to denigrate, it's too incredible.