They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. So, a couple weeks ago, I posted a photo essay about one way I address those pesky doubts about God’s existence that creep up from time to time: Step outside and immerse myself in nature. (Link HERE.)

A viral video making the rounds on Facebook a few years ago further reinforces – for me, at least – the idea that there has to be a God.

The video, “Cosmic Eye,” was created by Dr. Danail Obreschkow, an astrophysicist at the University of Western Australia. It has to be one of my all-time YouTube favorites.

At the beginning of the video, the camera focuses on a young smiling woman named Louise. The camera pans out to include her immediate surroundings. Then the city she is in. Then the western part of the United States, Planet Earth, our solar system, our Milky Way galaxy, other galaxies and finally the universe (part of it, anyway).

The camera returns to the woman, focusing in on one of her eyes. From there it zooms in on the pupil. Then a blood vessel inside the eye, a blood cell, a DNA strand, an atom, the protons and neutrons that make up the atom’s nucleus, and finally, quarks.

From the macro (galaxies, endless galaxies) to the micro (human cells, atoms, quarks) we see a panorama of an amazing universe.

I invite you to watch the video (click HERE or click on the thumbnail below), then ask, “Could all this have really happened by chance?”