Albert Einstein is quoted as saying, "Once you can accept the Universe as being something expanding into an infinite nothing which is something, wearing stripes with plaid is easy."
I am skeptical that something which might be called a conscious being made the decision "Okay, NOW!" to push the button, so to speak, and set off the Big Bang.
Fast forward billions of years and there are now, we are told, so many galaxies that, if each was the size of a cheerio, they would fill over a hundred Olympic swimming pools.[*]
It has not been given to me to believe that one Creator — of just Life on Earth, let alone of the entire Universe – keeps track of all life here, let alone determines everything that happens here and every act of every human being.
I think the Creator, however named, gave each of us physical and spiritual life and intelligence, and enough holiness, love and courage, to do our respective parts in the stewardship of Life on earth. As daunting as that responsibility may be, we can each do our best to seek, and to do, what love calls us to do moment to moment.
* See “Epic Spaceman” https://youtu.be/7J_Ugp8ZB4E?is=P1O4Fh9_5o-KpT5c
