Here's a pic from the Hubble telescope of a galaxy called I Zwicky 18. This galaxy was found about 40 years ago and thought to be young by cosmic standards. Now scientists have found data pointing at older stars in the galaxy, so the galaxy could be youthful in appearance but up to 10 billion years old. See scientists have open minds and are willing to change them when research shows new evidence...nothing at all fundamental about that.
The mindset of a grand creator being, blinking all of this into existance in six days, and being so gracious as to will it all to humans to steward and have control over, seems not just a tad, but hugely preposterous. If this is were the case each human on earth would own, have complete dominion and be responsible for at least sixteen galaxies. Delusions of grandeur. On this planet alone humans cannot even agree on one god figure...which you would think would not be a difficult task at all if a creator were so. Now imagine at least one planet in each of the millions of galaxies, that might have developed lifeforms that are appearently conscious of their own indiviuality. So conscious of themselves that they think they have an immortal soul and a greater purpose than just being born and taking care of themsleves and loved ones before dying. A greater purpose meaning...what happens to them after death? What? If all of these galaxies worshiped that one god, and were indeed on the proper path to a blissful afterlife...imagine the logistics of heaven and hell. Heaven/Hell would be so incredibly overpopulated. Maybe souls do not take up time and space? But what about saving all of those pro-life embyros so that the unborn souls have a fleshy vehicle waiting for them. So souls do take up space? Imagine all of the souls in the universe taking up space? With only two possible places to go, that would make for one crowded eternity. There seems to be an endless supply of souls in limbo just waiting to be injected into a mommy's tummy...where are those kept? In Heaven? Hell? A staging area? That would meean there are three possible places for an immortal soul to be kept. Even if Earth were the only planet with animals bearing souls, the eternal logistics of where to store them are simply nightmarish to contemplate.
Humans are the only animals that have the appearent brain malfunction, that when recognizing (unexplainable to them) patterns in nature put a supernatural explanation to them. Do bees worship a bee god that brings them fresh flowers anually? Do salmon dance around a maypole or fashion fertility idols? No, they swim upstream.
I am continually impressed and awestruck by these deep space Hubble photos. Look at all the galaxies that are in just this one view of the universe. Hundreds of evolving galaxies can be seen just from the Hubble Telescope concentrating on one postage stamp sized camera field of the universe. Amazes me for sure.
-A
PS: Here is a movie I have been meaning to watch...so I finally watched it. If you can get past the electronic music and trippy computer effects, it is very informative IMHO. In the vein of Aaron Russo's AFTF movie. Russo sound bites are even in this one too. Done in three parts...paraphrasing here...Religion=Astrology, 9/11=Fear, International Banking=One world government...a'la GW Bush's NAU. Zeitgeist.
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