No God But Maybe There is Something Else Out There?

All skeptics have thought or heard the view, "The Bible doesn't make a good case there is a God. But I think there's something else out there."

The view there are things we don't today know is a good one. To be a good skeptic we should be skeptical of the skeptic. On the topic of "Where did the universe come from?" Richard Dawkins wrote we don't know for sure know but he is confident we someday will know.

I'm engrossed in a book, Ends of the Earth, by professor Neil Shubin. The word "End" refers to the North and South Poles where Shubin has spent a lot of time. While the word "End" does not refer to the final days of when humans live on this planet the book forces one to face the ultimate end of the earth and human life on it.

Readers have all heard the thought experiment from philosophy, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it did it make a sound?" The book by Shubin indirectly asks if there are no humans on earth will it exist? The Bible tells us the earth was formed for only one purpose, to serve us humans. That cannot be true because we have been on the earth for a small percentage of its existence. If it exists just to serve us, why did it exist for most of its life when we were not here? 

The science of studying rocks and soils has gone from the dark ages to a world of enlightenment in a short period of time. We know the ice at the South Pole is about a mile think. Yet underneath the ice there, and in Greenland, are remains of plant life evidence both poles were warm more than once in the earth's history. It is known rocks found in the ice on the poles came from glaciers that were once on the equator. Rocks now tell us where they came from but also how old they are. Chemical changes take place at a constant pace so the age of rocks can be estimated even though they are millions of years old.

There have been long periods, like a million years, when the earth was covered with ice. It was uninhabitable during those periods to we humans. Scientists now say it has been warm enough for humans for only 10% of its life. That 10% of course has been the most recent period. 

If for 90% of the earth's life there were no humans were there any gods during that time? We still don't know where the earth came from. We can be certain the idea it was created by a god was not invented  until evolution gave the earth to us humans. 

It's quite obvious earth is on a long path that will again not allow humans to survive here. Gods will disappear when we disappear. I think it's OK to get rid of the gods now.