[wbhart]

It's amazing that members of our species can turn a photograph of earth from a great distance into an emotional appeal to support the belief system of the speaker (Carl believed that the laws of science were an impersonal God).

Personally I do not understand why people think that God would be more palatable if the universe were small and the boundaries of reality more obvious. For me, that only rules out the existence of a God created in my own image. It rules out the God of the small minded person, but not a God of inestimable power whose mind is as far above our mind as the heavens are above the earth!