It is important to say that my presupposition is that there is a God. Since it can't be proven by scientific method whether there is or isn't a God, it is a matter of faith to say that there is a God. Once that faith statement is made and truly accepted, the world becomes a true wonder of a testimony to His greatness.
The presumption that there is a God begins to get at the question of "Why?" that science can't truly answer. It can say that there is life but it can't quite say why there should be life and in particular why this kind of life or whether this is a transitional phase to some other sort of life that will be a higher form but bearing similarities to this one. If we presume there is no God then we are left to construct meaning on our own, either as a cooperative venture or a solitary one and there is little basis for preferring the cooperative to the solitary.
The presupposition that there is a God should immediately lead us first to the understanding that if He had something to do with bringing about the universe in general and our life in particular, that He is great in the sense of powerful and capable of incredible things. If we simply begin with that presupposition we can easily pray the first sentence of the little mealtime prayer, but that statement of faith opens up a world of possibilities that is more vast than the universe itself.
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