Image of God, Image of Man Introduction
It is arguable that the second most difficult scientific problem to explain after God is trying to explain how something as complex as consciousness can emerge from a simple gray, jelly-like lump of tissue in the head. But science does acknowledge human consciousness exists even though it cannot be thoroughly analyzed. Consciousness is much like dark matter, tardigrades, the Big Bang, a spark of life, and many other phenomena science has yet to fully define what it is.
How giant a leap of faith does it take from the mystery of the human consciousness to the possibility that in the very makeup of all the universe, there exists an even greater consciousness, God? After all, we are made in the image of God. A being of conscious thought housed inside a physical body. Does that not similarly define the universe with all its interconnectedness of matter, dark matter, and energy? How much more likely is it that if a small body like ours could develop consciousness is it that the very universe that we exist in is not also conscious? We can touch, smell, hear, see, and taste the physical aspects of God. We can see how God responds when we are doing right by our environment and what happens when we are doing wrong. We have written proof and testimony of communication with God. From my perspective, it is far more likely that God exists than we humans running around with a glob of grey goop in our heads.