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Awesome. I don't understand those who think we could be the only intelligent life in the galaxy, or even the universe.
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I have a friend who goes to school at a Bible college which promotes Young Earth Creationism. There was a guy who did a presentation similar to this, showing the incredible vastness and variety of the universe.
And his conclusion was that since Mankind is the only life in the universe, God created all that just to show His Own Majesty.
So God's an arrogant dick I guess...
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Your friend seems to want to limit God's power, while thinking he knows God's plan, and place human kind on a pedestal of some biblical sort.
For those that believe in God that would be a narrow minded thing to do. To bad religion seems to be a cause of, and not a cure for, narrow minded people.
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Which was what I was *trying* to say Incidentally my friend isn't a YEC herself, which got her into a shouting match with one of her professors. However it's pretty easy to see that YEC is based on fear. A little cozy cosmology with order and safety and a comprehensible divine being who is rather like a stern father figure. It's a bit puke-ish to me.
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Does anyone have that last pic in wallpaper size?
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Dude, you rule.
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I saw a cool documentary (an adaptation of a book) called "Privileged Planet". While pointing out the vastness and wonder of the universe, it makes some really neat observations about the Earth's location and other aspects of its construction that make it ideal for observing the rest of the universe from its surface. Almost like someone wanted the people living here to be able to learn about everything else. It's actually a really cool documentary whether you belive in a divine being or not.
Actually I remember seeing somewhere that it's good that our solar system has gas giants. Not only do they look cool, they also indirectly protect Earth from asteroids as their gravitation pull makes them more susceptible to asteroid collisions than our little blue planet.
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Doesn't every system have gas giants? Certainly everything we've discovered so far. Also I don't see how Earth is particularly special in observing the universe....I mean it's finite but unbounded, the universe that is, so anywhere you stand you can see everywhere else.
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And an airless planet would be better for observing the universe. Less light scatter during the day and less atmosphere shimmer at night. The best observing we've been able to do so far has been from a telescope we've put in space -- i.e. off the frikkin' planet.
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Incidentally my friend isn't a YEC herself, which got her into a shouting match with one of her professors. However it's pretty easy to see that YEC is based on fear. A little cozy cosmology with order and safety and a comprehensible divine being who is rather like a stern father figure. It's a bit puke-ish to me.
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