Passing Thought...
Mar. 15th, 2020 02:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanIt's a quiet day at work, so I've been trawling the news sites, as usual. Reading this article reminded me of just how small we are in this universe
Man, that 4th day for God must have taken some overtime!!
Genesis 1:16 The Fourth Day
… 15 And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well. 17 God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth...
Billions of galaxies, containing stars, planets, pulsars, neutron stars, black holes, dark matter, the entire elemental table (& probably a bunch more we haven't discovered yet), light, gravity...
If a divine being did all that in a day, surely he could spare a microsecond to take care of some business on the planet he filled with creatures made in his own image? Or did he just abandon this one as a faulty experiment & started again somewhere else...?
If you believe in that sort of thing, of course... not sure I do. I wish science could be a bit more definitive about the universe, but I suppose we've only been studying it scientifically for the last few hundred years, once the Church stopped persecuting astronomers, so I should learn to be patient - these things take time. Trouble is, time on a galactic, or universal, scale, is not something I have...
Sometimes I wish I didn't have the time, or inclination, to think about these things...
Man, that 4th day for God must have taken some overtime!!
Genesis 1:16 The Fourth Day
… 15 And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well. 17 God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth...
Billions of galaxies, containing stars, planets, pulsars, neutron stars, black holes, dark matter, the entire elemental table (& probably a bunch more we haven't discovered yet), light, gravity...
If a divine being did all that in a day, surely he could spare a microsecond to take care of some business on the planet he filled with creatures made in his own image? Or did he just abandon this one as a faulty experiment & started again somewhere else...?
If you believe in that sort of thing, of course... not sure I do. I wish science could be a bit more definitive about the universe, but I suppose we've only been studying it scientifically for the last few hundred years, once the Church stopped persecuting astronomers, so I should learn to be patient - these things take time. Trouble is, time on a galactic, or universal, scale, is not something I have...
Sometimes I wish I didn't have the time, or inclination, to think about these things...
