I agree, and I can’t understand how learning MORE about the vastness of Creation diminishes God in the minds of so many. The bigger, more incredible and wondrous the Universe and all that is in it, the greater and more miraculous is it’s Creator! Making ONE race of beings is acceptable for an Almighty Creator, but making billions of beings isn’t? We shouldn’t project our limitations-not to mention narcissistic need to be the center of everything- on God.
From either a religious or a purely scientific basis, we have no way of knowing yet whether the universe is filled with life or whether Earth has the only life in the entire universe. We won’t know unless and until we actually find life somewhere else. Until then, it is all speculation.
it seems to really limit God, to assume that he created just this earth with life and people, and simply stopped. Creation is limitless, or God Himself is finite, and isn’t God.