Posted on 02/29/2016 7:33:16 AM PST by Salvation
There’s no intelligent life in the White House...
and hasn’t been for over 40 years ...
[He never did promise us more than one.]
He promised us one. “For God so loved the world.”
The Universe goes on forever? Nope. Time and space are both finite; likewise the number of objects in the Universe is finite.
True..very true...
But “the world” doesn’t just mean “planet earth” or even this Universe, in particular. Biblically,”the World” is used to mean the realm of phenomena: what we can perceive with our senses.
Rare. As in non-existant.
GOD gave us knowledge about the earth. It seems that our universe is all He wants us to know about.
Could it be that our planet was the only one that fell to sin?
Boy, I sure don’t know!
This is not news
They just hate admitting it
>It’s finite.
Yes, and somewhere past it are the other Universes.
[Boy, I sure don’t know!]
Only the FATHER knows. :)
There is no necessary requirement of our faith that we must believe ourselves alone in the whole universe. God can, and even might have, created intelligent beings on other planets, beings with whom He interacts and whom He loves.
Rare? How about UNIQUE.
Even given a 1/10th chance for every factor necessary for “an Earth” to exist,
the odds become higher than the number of atoms in the universe.
Issac Asimov wrote a collection of non-fiction essays published in a book entitled The Tragedy of the Moon (1973).
In it is both an essay called The Triumph of the Moon, and The Tragedy of the Moon. In Triumph, he notes all the many and myriad ways the Moon has contributed to life on Earth and making and keeping the Earth habitable.
In Tragedy, he notes how men have used the Moon as justification for doing evil.
See Ward and Brownlee's book "Rare Earth", and Gonzales' book, "Privileged Planet."
They are also usually flare stars, and planets in the habitable zone are tidally-locked to keep one face (the warm one) pointed at the star. Not my kind of real estate.
The human world stands about midway between the infinitesimal and the immense. The size of our planet is near the geometric mean of the size of the known universe and the size of the atom. The mass of a human being is the geometric mean of the mass of the earth and the mass of a proton. A person contains about 1028 atoms, more atoms than there are stars in the universe... In our 150 pounds of protoplasm, in our three pounds of brain, there may be more operational organization than there is in the whole of the Andromeda Galaxy. The number of associations possible among our 10 billion neurons, and hence the number of thoughts humans can think, may exceed the number of atoms in the universe...
- Excerpt from: A Look at the Fine-Tuned Universe
“I speculate that creatures made up entirely of cohesive magnetic fields exist inside stars.”
So, as usual, you find them “attractive”? :)
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