I don’t get the controversy. When Dante described his ascent into the heavens toward God, he looks back and sees how puny and insignificant the Earth is and smiles.
This was in the 1300s.
Methinks some scientist types ought to read more Christian literature.
Exactly. I don’t find the concept of a puny earth insulting at all. Paradoxically such a realization led me to belief in God.
After all, since the universe is so vast, if one believes humanity is merely some evolutionary accident, it takes a great amount of hubris indeed to believe one’s life has any significant meaning at all.
There is no other choice when faced with the reality of creation and the reality of my own human desire: it’s either accept God is real or behave as an animal. I don’t want to be an animal (that’s just something real about me, that’s a fact, about me), so there must be a God.