If there ever is a God, he is probably hiding himself sufficiently enough so that our innate insatiable curiosity may lead us to investigate how he made the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets and life. The excitement will be ruined if he’d just appear and say, “hey! stop thinking about it, I made everything”.

But then, in the end, we might be surprised to find out who or what is behind the veiling mystery. All of us may be wrong about our concept of God or of ultimate reality, it may be more grand than most of us have thought. Absolute denial of the supernatural as well as the religious perceptions of it may both turn out to be oversimplistic. What lies beyond the bounds of what we humans don’t know? At the very end of this seemingly unending horizon of human exploration, what lies behind the mysterious and the unknown?

The real essence of spirituality and of scientific thinking is the same – that our existence is an attractively grandiose mystery. This is enough positive force to draw us to a life of contemplation,  discovery, and (to a lesser extent) generosity.  Now, that’s a good reason for God to keep hiding.

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