Looks kinda Alien, too.......
Posted on 05/11/2007 8:09:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
Looks kinda Alien, too.......
With the metals necessary for technological life.
Guillermo Gonzalez & Jay W Richards, The Privileged Planet: How Our Place In The Cosmos Is Designed For Discovery
It really is a beautiful universe.
It is kinda silly. If I have a kilogram of X and it’s half life is 14 billion years, then this mass was 2 kilograms then.......
I always get a good laugh out of those wacko creationists who think that the earth is only 5,000 years old. Boy, those ancient people like the Egyptians must have had a tough time fending off all those dinosaurs. LOL. And then there's the difference between Neanderthal, Cro-Magnan and modern man, but I wouldn't want to confuse the issue with facts, when fantasy stories like creationism work so well for some people. LOL.
You know the truth of the matter.
Two thousand years ago scientists followed a star and it led to Jesus Christ, as all things do.
Wise men still seek Him.
No, Nancy Peloopsi
I’d laugh but I actually know someone that believes that.
Well - it’s described as a “big, red, bloated star”, so that lends credence to your theory...
Ditto...
But then there's the cycle of mass extinction every 65M years, so any thing beyond the concept may be moot.
And there's always the possibility of a Shoemaker-Levy 9, or an Apophis ruining some people's day.
I suppose we, er, the Earth can be swallowed by a black hole, or not survive a galactic collision.
And let's not forget a massive GRB from a "close" supernova...
Word! Claiming the earth is only a few thousand years old denies reality. But more importantly, it attempts to bring God down to human level. God does NOT work on our timescale, He’s infinitely grander than that and His Work and Plans are way beyond our understanding. I wish that people would take note that often the greatest scientists (Newton, Einstein, Galileo) were quite devout. One can’t look at the grandeur of the Cosmos and not be moved spiritually. Well, Carl Sagan, maybe, but I think even he was; he just denied the feeling to himself.
Well said. Even if one accepts the 6,000 (?) age of the Earth as doctrine, that does not contradict the Earth being a couple billion years old. Here are two alternatives just off the top of my head:
(1) God's year (and day for that matter) is as long as he says it is. Nothing says that His time frame is the same as ours. In fact, an omnipotent God could exist in any time frame He wanted, associated with ours only to the degree and in the way He desires. This even has biblical support: Light (i.e., the Sun) wasn't created until the third day, so the first two days clearly were measured by something other than a day as seen by the Sun rising and setting.
(2) (My personal favorite) God created the world 6,000 years ago, but He created it old. Kind of like writing a backstory to a novel. Again, no problem at all for an omnipotent God.
The most likely reality is that the Earth was created several billion years ago. Those who transcribed the bible probably could not even come close to conceiving of a billion years, so the message was put in terms they could grasp.
Removing mass from the sun? That’s a new one on me. If mankind is around in millions of years I assume they’ll be able to adjust the orbit of the earth as the sun expands.
One of the podcasts I download is from the Hubble Site. Can't remember when, since I did d/l all the archives at the time, but I'm 99% sure that's where I heard it.
Moving the planet? Assuming it could be done, that's really going to mess up growing seasons, faking your age on ids and bios, what happens to "expires one year after date..."
I was thinking shrinking the Sun would require the planet shrinking it's orbit, too.
Expanding it would put it closer to the asteroid belt.
You and Obadiah need to work together to iron out the differences.
(Sorry for the late post...beautiful day here, so I played golf!)
If we can do that, we can move the planet to a more habitable orbit and simply adjust as the star adjusts.
Besides, there's a galaxy out there to be colonized.
If we can do that, we can move the planet to a more habitable orbit and simply adjust as the star adjusts.
Besides, there's a galaxy out there to be colonized.
So then PROVE it. My God people like you give christians a bad name for being stupid.
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