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Why Did God Make Such a Mind Bogglingly Vast Universe?
It makes people seem insignificant and worthless
As Douglas Adams famously said: “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.” He is right, of course. Space is big. And you can hardly fathom how big it truly is.
Recent estimates guess that there are as many galaxies in the universe as there are stars in our galaxy. Our individual galaxy contains roughly 400 million stars, and the number of galaxies in the universe is estimated to be between 400 billion and 1 trillion. That is trillions and trillions and trillions of stars, each as large, or larger, than our own, occupying an area of space that you cannot wrap your mind around.
Our galaxy alone is 100,000 lightyears in diameter which means it takes a beam of light 100,000 years to traverse it. Most of the light in the universe has barely moved within the span of human existence. If we suppose that humans have been around for 5,000 years, that means that the light in our galaxy has only made it 5% of the way across. And that is not to mention the other billions of galaxies out there.
If you really think about it, it makes your head hurt, and it makes you feel infinitely small.
