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It's Official: You're Lost In a Directionless Universe (sciencemag.org)
Reader sciencehabit writes: Ever peer into the night sky and wonder whether space is really the same in all directions or if the cosmos might be whirling about like a vast top? Now, one team of cosmologists has used the oldest radiation there is, the afterglow of the big bang, or the cosmic microwave background (CMB), to show that the universe is 'isotropic,' or the same no matter which way you look: There is no spin axis or any other special direction in space. In fact, they estimate that there is only a one-in-121,000 chance of a preferred direction -- the best evidence yet for an isotropic universe. That finding should provide some comfort for cosmologists, whose standard model of the evolution of the universe rests on an assumption of such uniformity.
God went to great pains to create a universe in which there was zero evidence of a creator. This whole no-consciousness-involved system of physics, a complete lack of divine intervention, the apparent evolution of life, and on and on.
Why? To filter out the stupid people who would believe in a creator despite a complete dearth of evidence.
So, those who refuse to believe are rewarded, in the afterlife, for their intelligence. They get promoted up to a higher plane of being where their keenness of mind can be put to good use. Everyone else gets tossed out into the wild, with the rats.