Though I'm enjoying some measured and intelligent responses in this thread, this thought must have sprung from the 'As above so below principle'. Ie that the macrocosm is the same as the microcosm, the universe is the same as God, man is the same as the cell, the cell is the same as the atom, etc etc.

I once had this 'inspirational' vision that we are simply microscopic  bacterial colonies in the palms of the great Creator just as bacteria flourish and live  upon our skin. [Well, like  a certain type of microbes at least, called archaea which diverged and evolved independently of other forms of bacteria - bit of elitism here]   The colonies that have formed on other parts of the body given our microscopic size compared to the Creator  might be light years away and unreachable. A day in the life of the Creator might seem like six billion years to us. Since some bacteria are airborn we might well have had 'space visitors'. The Creator periodically  taking a shower would have catastrophic consequences of course.

We  share some common traits with bacteria, for instance we duplicate and mutate at an incredible  rate, we can cause deadly diseases by befouling and corrupting  our own environment, which makes me fear that one of these days the Creator is going to get irritated enough to do more than just scratch and apply some deadly anti-bacterial  to kill us right off.

And thus might a brand new evolutionary cycle begin.

None the less ever since this insight I want to mumble a little prayer  each time I wash my hands now.