The beginning to now, in brief.

Long ago, before life on Earth there was just a hunk of rock possessed by a spirit.

This spirit eventually decided to pool her resources together into pools to create the basics of life.

And of course from it rose bacteria, plant life and eventually aquatic lifeforms.

Sometime during this process, another visited Earth, but not before visiting another first. The previous planet however did not fare well, but this spirit seemed to have faith in Earth.

So with the combined powers both began to develope more advanced forms of life, which eventually led to bi-pedal beings that will one day rule the world.

The spirit that came had done this before, had templates and notes and was pretty sure he knew what he was doing and what he did wrong before.

Earth had faith in the early days, but there started be disagreements in how things were ran. Earth wanted to keep the basic system in place, but the other spirit felt that more order was required in the world.

The end result was a falling out between the two. Were the new spirit retreated to watch the Earth from afar, but not before condemning Earth to her own soil, and dividing her from her spiritual son.

This division struck further than just the two main spirits, as all their collective children were left in a lurch. They were not ready for it. The children began to dived. Both the new and old. Ideas, opinions, cultures and beliefs clashed. No one was really wrong, nor right.

Over time the spirit residing above Earth would send his own to assist and direct the development of nations, however he did not have the same control over them as the Earth.

While some things stuck, the rule of father over the mother was not absolute. The children would ignore the father, take his place, cast him out or simply refuse him. Most had forgotten the mother Earth, leaving her to myths.

In the dawn of the year 2011, the spirit in the heavens knew that he could no shift the current flow that the people of Earth were taking. Things were heading to hell fast. Trust was dying, love eroding, hate manifesting. So he began to strike the Earth with storms and quakes, for many months.

Finally he succeeded, things started to come clear to Earth, she was always awake, always here, just not realized.

Earth hid in California, her son traveled from the mid-east to reunite with her. Over many generations...

7 years ago they met with two others, also sharing one body. They now have two children, married 4 years.

Earth suspects that the spirit of heaven was kind enough to direct them to her.

The non-religious view of higher power.

After living about a third of a lifetime, I've had many opinions on the existence of god. When I was young science had lead me to believe all of what religion said was fantasy. Grant it if you look at some of the stuff in religious texts some of seems like it could only be thus. This I learned is beside the point. Long through human history have we written tall tales to show our future generations the basics of morals. What is just and what is wrong. Good and evil may seem like relative terms that only apply to humans, but in reality it applies to every living creature whether we realize it or not.
If we look at all the religious beliefs held across the world we find a lot in common. The concept of higher power(s), spirits, and karma. Arrogance has made mankind feel that they, do to their communication and physical abilities that animal is less then, but humans are just as much animals as a common rodent. We all have needs, fears and desires. A layer of cultural sophistication does not really offset this.
Breaking it all down, we are just all an assortment of atomic particles revolving amongst each other to eventually create a living force. The more complex this entity the more it can do. But at its root it is but one thing, a life form. So with this in mind, perhaps like animals, we underestimate other entities which can be considered living. We know that the smallest form of life is but a single cell. Virus are smaller but its debatable whether they are alive or simply blocks of information thrown into the mix just for fun, or perhaps even as a tool of an even higher form of life.
Lets look at our Earth. One could argue that it is not 'alive', but I'd beg to differ. Consider the fact the Earth's core is a moving producer and receiver of heat. Much like the heart pumps our blood through our veins, the Earth blood is its lava and the rocky crust is its skin. The tectonic plates that shift very slowly show that Earth does more than just rotate along a star. It is very much alive and we are a part of it, composed of its raw materials. Likewise the sun which produce heat and consumes matter for sustenance.
Now lets zoom out a bit and take these massive bodies of life into perspective. They are much like cells in the sense of complexity. They act like atoms in the sense that they bond through a gravitational force to create systems. These systems comprise larger bodies in the form of galaxies. Taken in its whole the universe itself is the largest know life form, composed of numerous elements big and small.
Where am I going with this? Well I'm going to use what I've learned from science, for which members of its study have attempted to disprove, to prove that God is very much alive and visible. Recent discoveries have found that there are two different forces at work in the universe, matter and anti-matter. In essence the God and the Devil. Or in actuality the Angel and the Devil to comprise God as one whole. Much as life is a wonderful thing, death is an unfortunate necessity for the latter. Without evil there would be no good, and thus there would be nothing. At the heart of it all these conflicting entities must exist to create what is. The constant tug of war between the forces drives us everyday, challenges and tests us, both sides trying to lure us away.
This is why God knows what has and will, as well as complete power over all, for he is all. Much like we are gods of our own bodies, we can and have the power to control the parts of are bodies. We do not willfully control all of ourselves, as does God does not control our thoughts and actions. However our actions will trigger reactions from God, or more for us, Earth in our recent times. We've pissed off Earth on a whole, we have to admit it. Can we say the same for past master races like the dinosaurs? Of course, they, much like us today, ruthlessly devoured resources and breed like crazy, amassing our numbers and straining the resources of the world.
Now the Earth is mad and shows it well. While we are not wrong to say that this is from Global Warming, but it would be more accurate to call it a Global Reaction.

Of course these are just my thoughts from what I've learned and observed over the years.

Next time I'll rant about my thoughts on souls and the least likely lifeforms that man inadvertently created...