I do not understand how you can write an extensive article on a cosmological God without mentioning the “God-intoxicated man,” Spinoza. As I read your piece, as an amateur Spinozist, I could not help but recall at practically every turn Spinoza’s basic dictum: Deus sive Natura. What I understand of Spinoza I agree with, and I find his philosophy on the nature of God as all-encompassing closest to my own thoughts. One substance of infinite attributes, which we are aware of only thought and extension. Nature naturing; nature natured. No cause, no purpose; infinite and eternal, existing and moving out of its own necessity. To some this is clearly not a comforting universe. To me, it is comfort itself. That I am part of it, infinite and eternal.