Having previously been drawn to this idea of the unnatural, the supernatural and the natural, I began to think about whether or not anything can really be artificial. Naturally, I found this to be really challenging. If the word 'artificial' refers to something made/created by humans, then surely all of our thoughts are artificial and everything we can use to make something artificial from, is initially natural - unless, of course, the artificial is simultaneously natural.

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The first thing I think about when I think about gods and space is the Sun. It is one of the three immediately apparent influences of the solar system. The other two being the Earth and our moon.

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I subscribe to science and the facts that arise out of inquisition, investigation and subsequent discovery. Science is the study of the natural and as such it regards the supernatural as fictional - until enough adequate proof, subject to enough adequate investigation, deems it to be natural. The planets are no longer gods and demons, but real, physical objects that we can measure and predict. As science has proven the identity and physicality of astronomical objects, Jupiter, Mars, Venus are no longer part of the modern deities, they, are confined to the archaisms of history.

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Jupiter, Mars and Venus are real, factual objects that really exist in space. The gods that they were named after, vanished under a blanket of adequate description, adequate explanation and undeniable proof - only their names represent the antiquated sentiments they once held. Just because I don't believe in a god, or a religion, doesn't mean that they don't exist to other people in an extremely physical way. 

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It is the grandeur of nature that creates a god to man. The magnitude and complexity of everything around us that has forced us to create these supreme beings - in attempts to explain the physical awe of the universe. 

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Gods explain what we don't know.

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Science reveals the scale of what we don't know.