Staying sequestered: Yes, I've got a computer, a music keyboard, and a TV with 3 or 4 streaming services.I have a nice house with a powered recliner that I practically live in a great room with vaulted ceilings. Still, I feel like a captive Confined because of a pandemic and old age.While sitting in the recliner for endless hours, I have time to think. Thinking can be a dangerous occupation.I can only expect son Steve and his wife, to show up now and then. They have their own lives to live. So.....back to thinking.
While watching one of the innumerable Universe programs on Netflix, I started thinking about the formation of the stars and the vastness of the universe. Let me see if I've got this straight. Feel free to correct me. After all, I'm 86 years old so I'm entitled to some memory loss not to mention comprehension difficulties.The more I thought about the way we're told that stars are created, and as a result the rest of the cosmos, is the following: First there's the Big Bang where hydrogen atoms are created out of...well, out of nothing.This basic atom contains a nucleus with a proton and neutron, and one electron revolving around the nucleus.That's all there was except in enormous amounts, but there's so moch space in space that it took up hardly any room at all.After a billion years or so, the universe kept grinding out hydrogen until, finally gravity started to take over.It started the atom coalescingcausing friction and bumping up against one anotherreleasing energy and building more complex atoms which eventually led to a process called fusion igniting the stars and turning the universe into what we view today.

Have I missed something?Is that the way it happened or it just the way scientists like to say it happened because it makesthye math works.The more I think about it, the more it seems like a load of horse poop.The way the universe seems to be put together is by a craftsman who encounters problems as he goes along correcting the problems and any collateral damage as they keep appearing.Once he (or better yet, it)gets it working it can always go back and correct it with a better solution later.Or something more advanced. For example the 1910 Ford Model T as opposed to the 2016 Ford Taurus. This leads us to a creator.of the universe. If there is such an entity, I doubt it would be anything in what is portrayed in any earthly religion. We are now moving into an entirely different discussion, although somewhat related. It's too tempting to turn the above into satire, So I guess I'll quit now.