I have a puzzle of the universe. In the puzzle are planets, moons, our sun, comets, asteroids, and lots and lots of stars.

Each one of these bodies in space is a complex formation made up of elements joined together like the earth we live on. In looking at the make up of our planet we see an innumerable number of pieces and forces all working together to bind our earth as one.

It is safe to assume that all of these other planets and stars and moons are also like our own home here on earth.

My puzzle is 500 pieces. It came unassembled in the box and mixed up. When I first got the puzzle I determined to test it. I took the universe (only 500 pieces) and gave it a push. I put the pieces in a bowl and poured it on the ground. Over and over and over. No pieces joined themselves, not one. I added more force, substituting my calm pouring for a violent throwing to the ground. Over and over. I thrust the pieces of my universe to the ground. But alas, not one piece joined together. Although some stuck to each other in the disorganized mess of pieces, none joined themselves to the corresponding piece which would even begin to build my universe. I had others try also to form my universe by dropping or throwing the pieces down, but nada. Not one piece even came close to hooking to another piece. And I finally gave up trying to form my universe by uncontrolled force, time and repetition.

I am puzzled, this 500 piece universe of mine is nothing, an absolute zero compared to the immense complexity of the universe I look out upon every night when the sun goes down.

How could the pieces of something so vast, so beautiful, and complex as our universe just put themselves together? Not only to form the universe, but without the obvious advantage my universe had by me continually casting it down by force? It is said by the wisest that the universe did this all by itself.

Later, I put all of the pieces on a flat surface, arranged them by shape and color. In a few hours with my intellect, my eyes, and my hands, I constructed my universe, each piece fit together in perfect conformity. I have come to the conclusion that chance, time, and random force could not create my universe.