In well over 20 years of being a scientist, and as a seeker for many years before that, I have to agree with your sentiment that god is in everything, but, truly, are you sure?
I have thought many times that the incredible beauty and truth I found in science made me feel more immediately connected with the future I hoped touched a godliness, but still, learning to be an atheist has served better.
As an atheist, I am learning to think without fear, I am understanding more about my world without the perversion that religiosity has imposed upon my emotional life.
I am enjoying, as an atheist, the mythologies I have read, rather than trying to compare and contrast them with the mythology of Xtianity that was inculcated into my brain as a young child.
I prefer, as an atheist, to not wax poetic about god, using science, no matter how beautiful that histological slide looks under the microscope, no matter how that electron imaging stuns me, no matter how joyful the birds play in my trees in winter.
It is all so cool.
But does that mean that a god (or gods) demands fealty just because it makes me feel good?
Perhaps not.
More importantly, which may be to the point, the Republican Conservative Christian demand to perpetuate ignorance of science so as to not disturb the fragile and fungible status quo of an earth history of only 6,000 years and a story of all creation arising in a matter of less than a week, is weak, it is very, very, weak as an exultation of god, any god.
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