Perhaps the most inconvenient fact is the lack of global warming for well over 10 years now

When news broke this year that Diederik Stapel, a prominent Dutch social psychologist, was faking his results on dozens of experiments, the fallout was swift, brutal and global

This law works fine for the kinds of distances that we encounter in our everyday lives, even if in that everyday life you are a NASA scientist sending spacecraft across the solar system. But when the distance is very small, the answer you get for the gravitational force becomes extremely large, and if you try to use the equation to understand the behaviour of the universe a fraction of a second after the Big Bang, where r = 0, you get an infinite, and hence meaningless answer.

where does order/organization come from and why such low entropy at the start of the universe.

Stephen Hawking made worldwide news with his sound bite about how the universe was created.

"Undeniably romantic, but true never-the-less (is) the vision of a self-organizing and self-complexifying universe, grounded by ingenious laws that encourage matter to evolve toward life and consciousness. A universe in which the emergence of thinking human beings is a fundamental and integral part of the overall scheme of things. A universe in which we are not alone" Page 273

Cosmology is a wisdom tradition drawing upon not just science but religion and art and philosophy. Its principle aim is not the gathering of facts and theories as the transformation of the human. Cosmology aims at embedding a human being in the numinous dynamics of our solar system. 31

God is prodigal, abundance, generous, and wasteful beyond our small fears and imaginations. Nature too is stunningly overwhelming and prodigal. The scope of our universe, even just in so far as we know it, is almost unimaginable. So too is the abundance and prodigal character of God.

Because their zeal to honor the great One was done in the great One’s name, no one felt guilty about persecuting their own tribes-people like this. They were simply putting the great One first, making their sacred obligation take precedence over all human relationships. Every group claimed that they alone had the true sacrament of the great One’s presence whilst the others were either deluded or disobedient to the heavenly vision. The once happy people were racked with bitter divisions and hatreds over this issue of identifying and distinguishing what was supposed to be sacred and what was supposed to be common. That which was supposed to unite them only succeeded in dividing them.

Scientists, reacting to religion for whatever reason, resorted first to meaningless randomness (chance, nothingness) to explain things. Recognizing then the absurdity of such explanation, they then turned to creating new gods with similar powers to past deity, to explain and make sense of reality and life. But the arrogance here was in claiming their new gods were the product of rationality, empiricism, myth-free reason, and good science. They claimed the rational high ground and derided the simple believer in the metaphysical and divinity. Yet in essence what is the fundamental difference between their new gods and God?.