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That's a weird hypothesis...not sure why I'd believe it, or what questions it resolves...it merely kicks the can of overall existence down the road.Yet through all times, places, and cultures we have people relating encounters with God. Sounds like much more than yearning. We can connect with God.nteresting. Who knew? I'm more of an atheist than Dawkins. God is clearly human's most common expression for latent yearning. A stuffed animal placeholder for all that has yet to be provided or explained to individual satisfaction. Eternally celebrated childishness in a nutshell.
That is an interesting point. This sense of something beyond ourselves is found in all human culture. The problem is, that the god people connect with in this place is not the god people connect with just down the road. And this variation in gods seem to be determined by the ability to communicate. So just as governments have tended to consolidate as communications improved (I'm talking about speed of travel as well as other means) so have religions. This would lead me to conclude that if some connection is being made, it isn't actually what people think it is.
So let me toss out a hypothesis. The universe was neither created nor a happenstance. It was born. The singularity was an egg and the universe is alive. This connectivity is the connection between all life. Of course, this means that to such a being a galaxy would be like a skin cell and it would be as aware of us, and care about us, the same way we would be aware or care about a single atom of oxygen in our blood.
Or not.