Yes I pick on all religions.

[Brian37]

I don't have any beliefs in any god, but I do feel there is a collective universal consciousness that we are all one in. This idea of a universal consciousness is something I cannot prove

Ok in fairness to Froodo what you just said right here is an example of making a claim with no evidence. And like Froodo it is a naked assertion. And on top of that no credible scientist would take even this claim seriously.

If you truly believe this it is absurd to simply make that claim with no evidence and is the same flawed logic froodo is employing.

If you can accept that a hurricane does not need a cognition to start it, then why would the universe need a cognition or be a cognition itself?

Outside the cognition of biological life, the planet and universe are NOT thinking like a human nor is it one giant being itself. It is merely like a collection of moving objects much like you accept that a hurricane is a result of processes that require no cognition to occur.