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It
is estimated that the universe is around 13.8 billion years old and still expanding.
It could very well be nearing middle age and at some point, another billion years
or so, it and we, could begin our long anticipated death spiral, eventually
bringing an end to…I don’t know, a 30-billion-year, bigger-than-a-bread-box
experiment in going nowhere .
The
point is the universe is not going to be around forever, although never has
forever seemed so long. The consensus of every single person living on Earth,
backed by every religion trusted by those gentle souls, is that whether a God
created the universe with a wave of His hand or did nothing more than jumpstart
something that eventually was going to happen anyway, the appearance of man has
always been the intended end game.
If
everything simply fell into place on its own, man still has every right to be
proud but he can’t really accept any credit. Being around when shit happens is
no big deal even if we are the best shit in the universe—and we don’t know
for sure that we are.
However,
if a God is behind this, and I don’t mean in a sinister way; but if He is
behind it, a logical question would be, why did it take so long to get to the
main act? What was He expecting? Is He happy with what He got?
If we are the straw that stirs the drink, why are we only
now entering at last call?
