Does size impart importance?

              I just became a new dad, and I have been working to re-establish my rhythm in my life while taking care of my baby girl. While looking at her one night, I was hit with an old argument that I have seen some thoughts about how humanity, and planet earth, are so insignificantly small with respect to the universe, that religion has to be false because it is human-centric. I wanted to take a minute and think about that size qualifier. Just because someone/something is small relative to something else, or the universe, does that make that someone/something unimportant? Absolutely not, and we can demonstrate this through anecdotal evidence and scientific evidence.

              Anyone who has had a child of their own can tell you, and now I can, that having that baby just shifted almost all of your priorities lower down and placed that baby at the very top, just short of my relationship with God. They are incredibly small relative to their parents (especially to me with my height of 6 feet 4 inches), but that child is my legacy into this world.

              On a more macabre side, let’s think about weapons and poisons. It takes a very small amount of poison in many cases to kill, and a firearm uses a relatively small projectile to kill. We as humans, especially in the United States, spend a very large amount of time debating about firearms, so we make them very important pieces of human culture and lifestyle. Once again, we see cultural evidence that we do not equate size and importance.

              Now I do admit to being unfair to the argument I posed above, because the argument is more existential vs the destiny of the universe, but let’s start taking this argument a little more seriously. Let’s talk about the universe, which is mostly empty space, but the matter that we can observe is made up of infinitesimally small particles, that make up our subatomic particles, that make up our atoms, that in turn make up molecules, that all coalesce to make our observable universe. Size does not dictate importance.

              Even still, this argument I think is predicated on the idea that God is something made up out of the human imagination because we cannot conceive of how very small we are compared to the universe. Rather, most Christians I discuss with believe that we have a God who is that loving and pays that much attention to detail of His Creation that He would let us know that He created us and loves us. I pray that this flip of the argument helps those that don’t feel important this evening. May God bless you and have a good rest of your day.