Yes Virginia, there is a God.

There is a God, but not the human male depicted by Michelangelo on the Sistine Chapel. Instead, God is the spirit of the universe and all that the universe contains. God consists of the principles of physics: gravity (or the curvature of space-time), matter, light, time, velocity, speed, space, nuclear interactions and the laws of thermodynamics. God consists of forces, accelerations and the laws of collisions; the laws of nuclear physics: radiation and disintegration. God consists of the laws of probability, genetics and evolution and many more principles.

A spirit is our emotional attachment to an idea: the spirit of Christmas, the Spirit of St. Louis, and the spirit of forgiveness. Man has a natural tendency to spiritual attachments handed down by heredity through thousands of generations. Since man developed a cerebrum he has understood that a superior being, his father, controlled his activities and punished him for wrongdoing. In adults, this translates into a higher unseen being who controls the outcome of his endeavors, a God.

Religions that started two to three thousand years ago have not kept up with modern science. We know that earth was assembled over a period of four billion years or so and that it was done with the laws of gravity, the laws of motion and the thermodynamics of collisions. The problem arises with the attempt to interpret the Bible too literally. God, the assemblage of all physical principles, built the earth; and we can say it took six days if we define a day as seven hundred million years. But to imagine a human-like being, as did Michelangelo, constructing earth with his hands is a difficult undertaking.

The universe is some 93 billion light years in diameter, about 13.7 billion years in age and probably originated in the Big Bang. Modern religions do not acknowledge this; they insist than an ethereal God who can be everywhere and know everything built the universe with his hands or through magic. We know modern man evolved from ape-like ancestors but modern religions still adhere to the idea than God constructed man from dirt with his hands. God, the spirit of the universe did create everything but it was done with the natural forces and laws that we observe everyday.

And so Virginia there is a God.