> God is ascribed attributes the universe is not: omniscience and omnipotence. Ain't really sure whence you'd get that impression. It's hard to exist without

> God is ascribed attributes the universe is not: omniscience and omnipotence. Ain't really sure whence you'd get that impression. It's hard to exist without the universe being aware of it and causing it to be, both in the sense of the universe having been in a state enabling your existence and in the sense of your existence having effects on the universe (and thus producing new states enabling other existences). God and the universe might not be one and the same, but they're intertwined; for the universe and the contents thereof to exist in any meaningful sense beyond some homogenous blob of cold matter, you need something dictating the interactions of matter and energy to produce something meaningful. Call it God, call it physics, call it whatever, but regardless it's obvious that it exists - the universe would be a rather boring place otherwise.