Read this, a new take on "Anthropic Coincidences" by a noted theoretical particle physicist first. Please. It's important.

There's nothing more important.

I'll wait.

All done? Okay, as we were.

This is one of my admitted obsessions. There is an extremely logical case to be made for a Creator---by those who know a lot about science--- if people will only listen to it.

The obsession isn't that it's out there. It's that nobody except those who like to read books on theoretical physics and cosmology know about it. That people remain curiously ignorant about it, and no media wants to make the case.

People look at you funny, as if you are claiming to have a perpetual motion machine or turn lead into gold, if you say you think there's proof of the existence of God. Circumstantial, not direct, but after all, that's all we have for the theory of evolution, and its cumulative force is very persausive.

Yet the irony is...there is evidence for the existence of God....and we ignore it.

The churches, which should be proclaiming this from the pulpit---the mosques, who should be blessing Allah for letting Him reveal Himself this much---the synogogues should say, "the heavens proclaim the glory of God"---all of them are silent on this. Most of them are ignorant of this.

Why?

Do they like being stuck in a quagmire of doctrinal irrelevance? Must they always argue about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

The Pope, and the Catholic church, has issued no opinion on this. They issue opinions on abortion, on evolution, on hundreds of other subjects---but no warm welcome to the most important news in mankind's history.

Since Galileo, the divide between Church and Science has become so great---abetted by Darwin and the reaction to him---that the religious tend not to even follow science, and the scientific tend not to follow religion.

Not always, in either case. Yet we who follow both are a frighteningly small minority.

Religion has become timid and cowardly, and worse, in some cases proud of its ignorance. Afraid to proclaim science has found a good case for God, because of disappointments in the past, they ironically turn their back from a good, logical case for God.

Science, which prides itself on its search for truth---is so proud of turning its back on superstition and myth that they, for the most part---refuse to look.

So Truth---which is the goal of both science and religion---is the only loser.

Faith was never meant to be unreasoning. The historical narratives that were gathered in the Gospels, were selected with great care to make the best case. As it is, there is more historical witness for Jesus' resurrection--- than there is for the highly improbable crossing of the Alps via elephant---by Hannibal.

Similarly, to hear an excellent case for a Creator, you only have to listen to the right people, or read the right books. It's as if someone read the theory of gravity, or of evolution (and I believe in both, by the way) for the first time---and didn't care.

How can you not care?

Some people know this, and it makes no difference in their lives. This knowledge---does nothing to them. They accept it as a fact, and it makes no difference.

How can that be?

How can the knowledge that we were meant to be here not affect you? That life was meant to be here?

How can you read about recent happenings--- and not be struck by the appalling loss of that which the Creator Himself endeavoured to create over billions of years?

That religion isn't just a difference of opinion, like one's hair style or favorite color. That it's about a frightening truth? That a Being mighty enough to breathe a universe into existence---to whom the galaxy is a dust mote, the world an atom---

Has reason to mourn?

Has reason to be angry?

That someone dared to do something like this---in His name?

Sometimes I wish I could be an agnostic or an atheist. To believe in the senselessness of life, the existential absurdity of it all. It might be more comforting at a time like this. When things don't make sense, it would help to say that it's all senseless....and not our inability to make sense of it.

All the evidence points in the other way, though. Honestly.

Only a coward would close his eyes to it. Only a person afraid of the implications would say it doesn't matter. I'm not talking about the atheists who would argue with the basic premise; I would gladly talk to them about it anytime.

No, it's those who think that whether the universe they live in was planned or haphazard, whether their lives are meant to be or are entirely chaotic---that neither choice makes a difference...

...That earn my contempt.

From the building of the Pyramids, to the shattering of the Twin Towers, we see even the belief in it--- very much makes a difference. In the actual reality---in the stars that shine thanks to the fine-tuning of a Creator---it makes a difference.

Yet some people are more affected by their favorite pop group, and are more opinionated about their favorite director, than whether there is a Creator...or not.

Missing the forest---for the blades of grass. They don't even lift their eyes high enough to see the trees.