God, the Minimalist

God also does things in small ways. He seems to exert minimal effort. He is not hovering over you all the time, bugging, nagging you about all your failures. God does not drive from the back seat of the car. God starts things and lets time do the rest. God is persistent. God is patient.

God cooks soup in the stars. God cooks soup in our star. He keeps the stove going for 18 to 20 billion years. The soup gets very thick. The longer it cooks, the thicker it gets. Heavy elements all the way out to Uranium, and beyond, are formed. This soup pot is one that God does not have to watch all the time. He does not have to stir the pot from time to time. He just lets it burn. He set the rules. It works just fine without attention.

Where does all the Hydrogen that God puts into stars to cook come from? He creates it all the time. It is going on now. All throughout the Universe. I think that God is constantly Creating. He does this by the Force of His Will. Just think. Somewhere out there between the galaxies, there’s a little “blip!”, and a Hydrogen atom appears. That is the moment of Creation. Something form nothing. God did it.

My idea is at least as probable as the theory that Hydrogen is “leaking” into our Universe from another Universe. Cosmologists and Religious Theorists are not all that far apart. God starts things and lets time do the rest. God is persistent. God is patient. Over time, it adds up. This is how He Created the Universe at the Beginning. There was an accumulation of Hydrogen in the Original Universe.

When there was enough, God metaphorically “flicked His finger”, a la “moved a butterfly wing”, and created movement. Scientists call this Brownian Movement after the scientist that discovered it. Movement created ripples. Ripples created eddies. Eddies created whorls. Whorls grew. Whirling created spinning cold cauldrons of Hydrogen gas. These grew into whirlpools. The whirlpools coalesced through the action of gravity into great spinning balls of gas. We call them planets, gas giants, and super gas giant planets.

Go to the library. Look up the size of the planet Jupiter. Compare it to Earth. Jupiter is basically a large ball of cold Hydrogen gas and other complex elements. Jupiter is a giant propane bottle of fuel waiting for action. Jupiter did not get big enough to turn on. It is a baby sun. It didn’t get big enough to turn on.

Jupiter is an incomplete sun. It is big, but not big enough. It does produce heat, but it does not produce light. Jupiter will just have to wait its turn. In God’s next round of star creation, the gasses and elements of Jupiter will get their chance. A chance to be a part of a star somewhere. In the meantime, Jupiter is part of God’s reserve fuel supply. Jupiter is just a kind of spare gas tank, waiting to be used.

If the whirlpools coalesced into sizes large enough, they became the first stars. Imagine the change in the Universe when all the stars started to turn on! Think of that first time you remember when your Dad turned on the strings of multicolor Christmas lights.

What did God do? He created atoms of Hydrogen. He “flicked a finger”. He waited. God is persistent. God is patient. God is a minimalist.

(c) Copyright 2006: George Wallace recently published a book on religion which lashes out at nearly all of the comfortable ideas about God, the trappings of organized religion, and the priesthood. His pithy comments and suggestions for a return to a God-centered personal religion will interest everyone. This article may be freely reprinted so long as all copyright attributions, and the full content of this resource box are included. www.OhGodIsThatYou.com

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