Father Georges Lemaître
Roman Catholic Priest, Astronomer, and Astrophysicist
Posted on 12/04/2008 12:25:24 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
ping!
Amen.
GGG sorry about the flames to come.
Some people on FR get really agitated by God and creation.
The sun is the perfect type and size of star for allowing a habitable zone.
The earth is in that habitable zone.
The earth’s moon is the perfect size/distance not only to enable life on earth, but to allow study of the universe during perfect eclipses.
The gas giant planets are perfectly located within our solar system to shield the earth from killer strikes.
The sun is located not only in the right kind of galaxy for life, but in the proper location within the galaxy.
Now, these are just some of the hundreds of required and known conditions.
I would conjecture that we will some day discover that our galaxy is perfectly situated in relation to other galaxies in order to facilitate life on this one little lonely blue planet.
Bump!
If one follows modern science, it is the scientists who are ignoring tons of evidence pointing to the possibility of God, because their own prejudice/ religion is atheistic.
“Dark” energy and “Dark” matter is a complete wystery comprising 96% of the universe, black holes, the uncertainty of anything due to quantum physics, the Big Bang itself, other dimensions - all involve the unknown and even that which science considers unknowable, which in turn leaves open the possibility of a God.
Father Georges Lemaître
Roman Catholic Priest, Astronomer, and Astrophysicist
The Big Bang describes perfectly what the scriptures say about God creating the universe out of nothing.
Think about it. Science is proving God right. Many scientists deny that God orchestrated the Big Bang but you would be surprised at the number of scientists who are Bible-believing conservative Christians or Orthodox Jews.
This is in spite of the fact that the completely disproven notion of Young-Earth Creationism that makes it difficult for Christians to witness to educated people.
If there was a Big Bang and no one heard it, did it really happen?
But not God. Anything but God.
Others of us are agitated by the junk science put forward by Young-Earth Creationists. It's worse than the stuff that Al Gore churns out and hurts those of us who are in the position to witness to educated people.
Genesis says almost nothing about the how or the when. It primarily tells us about the Who.
What killer strikes?
Yep, I guess we're just a bunch of uneducated, illiterate, red-neck, knuckle-draggers who wouldn't know which way to hold up a book.
No problem. I’m used to it :o)
Thanks for the post, GGG.
Well, more accurately, Genesis describes perfectly and in perfect order, every step and in exactly the right sequence, what the Big Bang theorizes about creation and the evolution of life.
It's just that Genesis describes the Big Bang about 6000 years BEFORE the big Bang was thought up. Now, I will grant that Biblical oral histories DID miss a few decimals places, but those wandering shepherds didn't exactly have pwers-of-ten notation and the decimal system. (After all, God invented the universe before man invented the zero to describe it.(
Gives ya goose bumps don’t it?!?
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