First published here five years ago today.
There are 6.4 billion people living on earth. There are approximately 100 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy — 16 times more stars than people. The latest estimates say there are over 125 billion galaxies in our universe. The universe is estimated to be between 13 and 14 billion years old and having a radius of at least 10 billion light years (because we can see stars that far).
The earth is about 4.55 billion years old. And man has been on earth for the last 350,000 of those years. By my arithmetic (which is open to correction), if the age of earth was proportionately reduced to 100 years, then man has been on earth for not quite 3 days and each person inhabits this earth for about one minute.
With all this in mind, does God really care if someone kicks a field goal?