My quibble with "God-shaped hole" is not with the hole part, but with the God part. God is a very very recent idea, only having been around for the last few thousand years. Deity existed in many, many, many different forms before the monotheists took over. That could perhaps have been better explained.
But it doesn't take much to reach a conceptualization of God. I believe in a universe that's bigger than the physical aspects of it that we can see and experience. Given that even in our own universe, self-organization and sentience were able to evolve, there's no reason not to believe that sometime before our universe existed, a powerful being evolved to guide existence. When time frames literally stretch out to infinity, anything's possible.
Our universe could be just one in a countless procession of similar universes. The idea's even taken seriously by the scientific establishment. With this groundwork laid, over unimaginable numbers of universal iterations, there's more than enough room for God.
But it doesn't take much to reach a conceptualization of God. I believe in a universe that's bigger than the physical aspects of it that we can see and experience. Given that even in our own universe, self-organization and sentience were able to evolve, there's no reason not to believe that sometime before our universe existed, a powerful being evolved to guide existence. When time frames literally stretch out to infinity, anything's possible.
Our universe could be just one in a countless procession of similar universes. The idea's even taken seriously by the scientific establishment. With this groundwork laid, over unimaginable numbers of universal iterations, there's more than enough room for God.