The Question of God

The way I am able to perceive it through the lens of my human faculties, the universe, boiled down to its core, is either

1) the "creation" of some Force/Entity, or

2) a naturally occurring, random and scientifically knowable process.

Let us stipulate for purposes of this discussion that the universe we perceive today was "created" by some Entity. Where do we go from there? What more can we do in terms of defining the parameters of said Entity?

More importantly, why do we feel we must go farther?

Why have we (humanity--the big "we") felt compelled to fill in the cosmic blanks and proceed with such fervor from the reasonable and sensible act of intellectualizing one possible explanation for the physical universe, to Seven Days of Creation, poison apples, burning bushes, immaculate conceptions, ascension to heaven on a white horse to ... ? All of this, I note, on one humble planet orbiting one of 100 billion suns in one of the 125 billion galaxies we have perceived to date.

For many years, I have sought from non-dogmatic religious men and women a meaningful explanation for and reconciliation of the leap humankind has made from intellectualizing the possibility that his universe has been willfully created, to the myriad competing, interpretative structures and artifices our species has built around the concept. The Creator Entity we logically and emotionally accept as a possibility has, in the eyes and hearts of millions throughout our species' history, been transformed from some inconceivably capable, remote intellectual concept, to the subject of institutionalized debating societies intent on convincing each successive generation that their particular Creator model, right down to his Motivations and his Will, represents Truth.

The leap is, simply, staggering. To the Agnostic mind, it is inconsistent not just with logic but common sense. It bespeaks not a quest for knowledge but a psychic night light against our vestigial fear of the dark. And that we have made the leap with at best wildly subjective circumstantial "evidence" alone, and even in this scientific age continue to turn daily to solemn intellectual exercises in strained logic in an effort to try to "prove" any of it ... is enough to drive me before you today to ask, yet again, as I will for as long as I live, of anyone listening and willing to venture into these waters ... why?

Is it not enough to marvel at the magnificence of the universe, and seek its answers through humble, patient and testable investigation, without inventing its cause, history and meaning to suit our needs?

No offense intended to any fellow human being or deity Who might be listening.