Do metaphors get any more obvious than this?
"The universe is wonderful enough on its own. Space, stars, planets, black holes, galaxies, suns. The fact that out of all the elemental soup, people like us have evolved to walk and talk and create art, music, white wine, patent leather stacked mary jane shoes, Cocoa Puffs cereal, truck nutz, chocolate chip cookies, surf boards, and the Neiman Marcus cosmetics department is AMAZING. All by itself. Saying, 'god did it' is heartbreaking. It pisses on the sheer wonderousness of it all, you know? I don’t need more.
I hear it all the time: "Well, science doesn't know everything,..". They say it like science is a bald-headed step-child compared to whatever goofy belief they're defending. So I think, from time-to-time, I'm going to remind these fools of what science does know - like space travel (above) or how to put a person to sleep, cut them open, fiddle around inside them, and wake them up again. What it allows us to see in the very small, as well as the very large; and whatever else people with NewAge beliefs think they can pooh-pooh because their outlook is so limited, and malthusian, they can't imagine anything better than what it allows.