Complex, multicellular life from over two billion years ago discovered

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23. Some scientists are trying to read the truth written by God's own hand in the rocks, the stars,

and the structure of atoms.

Religious extremists want to ignore that in favor of a book based on ancient stories written down by men and collected, copied, miscopied, edited, garbled, translated, and mistranslated over and over. And they want to believe one relatively recent version of that took no poetic license, or told any parables or symbolic fables, but must be taken literally at face value only. They base this on the idea that their God is infallible and all-knowing, even though He cannot get the same dogma agreed upon by anything close to a majority of people, not even all the people who base their religions on the very same book.

If they paid closer attention, they might realize science has greatly increased the power and majesty of what we think of as God. The ancients thought God was the God of the Earth and the sky. And they thought the sky was pretty small. Now the concept of God is a divinity that created billions of galaxies containing billions of solar systems each. (Some think God created a multiverse containing an uncountable number of universes.) The concept of this newer, far greater God has only existed for a few hundred years. Knowledge that other galaxies besides the Milky Way exist doesn't date back even one hundred years.