Whether you're OEC or YEC here is an awesome and touching video.

Sure, there's billions of planets and stars and galaxies and likely other life forms out there in the universe....but Jesus thought it was very important that we learn an awful lot about what some near east Hebrews were doing for a long time, what kind of animals they were sacrificing, who was king over which littler territory and then a little later that we all needed a human blood sacrifice in place of animals to forgive our pay for our humanity and he made all this incomprehensibly vast universe unknown and unknowable as a mere backdrop to petty human affairs...

Not a compelling narrative when placed in context, is it? Not to me, anyway.

The marvel of this universe is part of what convinces me so thoroughly that the tiny and utterly human scope and context of this so called god as described in the Bible is the myopic fantasy of people who didn't know any better.

Yes, the universe is amazing. But concluding that it must have been created by an intelligent deity leads to the obvious question of who created that deity. And if your answer is "he needed no creator," couldn't the same thing be said about the universe? The appearance of design doesn't mean it was designed. If gravity or the speed of light were any different, we wouldn't be here to marvel at it.

One way to look at it would be to think of all the countless matings between different people over the past few thousand years, where if any one were different, you would be a completely different person. But that doesn't mean there was some guiding force pushing each of your ancestors together with the goal of resulting in you. Those matings were all due to individual decisions made by each person with no overarching plan.