"I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it." -Steven Wright
So just because the Ask Ethan series is becoming way more popular than I can handle I've got more than 200 questions that I'm sitting on by now doesn't mean you should stop sending your questions! There are some really good ones, and today's comes from Robert Plotner, who asks:
"Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history." -John Polkinghorne
Out there in space, whether we look with our eyes or with a telescope a far more powerful version of our eyes we find that the Universe is full of stars, galaxies, clusters, and luminous objects everywhere we look.