More scientific food for celestial thought. What do we, as Christians, do with such findings?
via Kepler Telescope Finds 1,200 Possible Planets Orbiting Other Stars – NYTimes.com.
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Kepler Observatory seeks more earths and other beings
Are we alone? That question has fascinated mankind for millennia, and recent astral investigatory methods are inching us closer to an answer. So, here’s the question: Do we want the answer? What if life exist beyond our solar system, and our feeble understanding? What are the implications for religious belief if such a discovery is made?
To be sure, we’re a long, long way (literally) from getting such a definitive answer, but the fascination and potential disruption to our belief system is palpable. What do you think about this?
via Kepler Observatory Seeks More Earths and Other Beings – NYTimes.com.
Food for thought
Galaxy has “billions of Earths”
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A big day for small science
Hey, we’re still here! The Large Hadron Collider was switched on yesterday and earth was not swallowed up by a black hole as some had feared (see previous post). So what happened when they flipped the switch? Watch and learn Video: A Big Day for Small Science.
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When I in awesome wonder…
How often do we stop and consider our place – this Earth – and its relationship to the vastness of space and time?
Here’s an excerpt from the writer of “Window of possibility” (see link above):
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field image should be in every classroom in the world. It should be on the president’s desk. It should probably be in every church, too.
“To sense that behind anything that can be experienced,” Einstein once said, “there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness.”
