I have thought about writing a post like this for a long time. Part of it is just to share something interesting, part is to give perspective on how unique we really are, and part of it is to put out there why I believe it is is rational to believe in God (that there is an intelligent design)  without ever putting a single line of the Bible into a discussion.  We also discuss a lot on this site and sometimes we focus in on the little things pretty deeply. So I thought maybe you would like to see what “big” is and maybe get a perspective on just how little space we take up in this universe.

Please note, some of this is from memory and simple estimates.

1. There are about 100 billion stars in our galaxy… There are 100 billion galaxies.

100,000,000,000 x 100,000,000,000 = 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

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