Really Big Bang…. Long Time…. Really
Long Time…. A lot of Expansion…. and then? Some scientist say we will reverse
the process and shrink back into nothing.
We won’t even be, to use the line from KANSAS, “dust in the wind.”
We can speculate on all the
stuff that has gone on in the universe, and we can guess with even greater
uncertainty what will go on with it. We are
expanding man’s knowledge of how things appear to work, accepting some
theories, rejecting others, and revising still others, but at the end of the
day the science really is our best guess, based on observation and limited
confirmation. We are building ever
bigger and more capable computers to tell us what will be. Will these, at some point, become our gods as
prophesized in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy?” If that happens, what will atheists not
believe in?
I saw an article the other day
where one researcher (scientist) suggests we are the only “earth-like” planet
in the universe. We are a 1 in 700,000,000,000,000,000,000
happenstance. Wow, talk about winning
the lottery! Of course this “finding”
comes with the usual caveats, “more data is needed,” “additional government funded
research is warranted,” “global warming is caused by greed,” and “void where
prohibited by law.” But you’ve got to be impressed with how lucky we are to be
on earth, if we were anywhere else we would be dead!
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