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So another great debate erupted out of nowhere on the Globe&Mail website this week.  This one over the reports that Russia is attempting a mock Mars mission.  What they mean by this is that a group of Astronauts (well, mostly Cosmonauts, let’s be fair) will be working inside a simulated Mars mission for 520 days to study the effect the duration of such a mission would have on a trained crew.  One of the most interesting asides to all this is that a few years back the Russians tried another simulated mission that ended somewhat prematurely when one of the Red blooded Males (take the colour literally please) kissed their female Canadian teammate.

Okay, putting all the juicy, movie-of-the-week hilarity of that aside (and the obvious question of why we didn’t hear about THAT earlier), the discussion below, as seems to be typical of a Globe&Mail comments section, veered right off the rails and some how got onto the topic of whether there was, or was not a God.

What kicked off this blog post was the usual mid-level intelligent’s counter argument: “If God created the universe then who/what created God?”

My response to this, of course, is Bullocks!  "Who created God?" is the most ignorant question I've ever heard.  You can ask that anymore than you can ask Who/what created the Universe then?  We don’t know but if one can just pop into being why not the other? 

Fact is the beginning of creation is so far beyond our human ability to comprehend that anyone, and I mean ANYONE, who thinks they KNOW one way or the other is a fool.  What you believe is up to you, but we can no sooner understand the mind of God (or whatever) than a 2 dimensional picture can comprehend 3 dimensions. 

However, before dismissing a Creator lets consider the risk shall we?  If, for example, all the Christians are wrong then they have followed an ethos that, depending on their own personal fallibility, may have made them better people and enriched their lives (if they actually followed the teachings that is), so if they're wrong and they die and there's nothing well, so what?  What have they lost? 

If however, those who don't believe in God are wrong and there is an afterlife for those who believe then the only time they have in this great and expanding universe are the scant few moments of their limited pointless lives on this tiny little Earth. 

With a choice between possible eternal afterlife or being worm food, well only a narrow minded idiot would choose to risk their eternity on their limited ability to comprehend the infinite possibilities that may exist.

And if the possibility of God was good enough for the greatest minds in human history, that being Newton, Einstein and Hawking then I'll put my money on there being a God.  So enjoy your dirt nap middle intellect, science minded, suckers, it’s a pity we’ll never hear from you again, or wait, actually, no it isn’t a pity.  It’s probably a little overdue!