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[Nathan]

I just love the enormous arrogance of people that truly believe God created Earth and the "heavens" at the same time. Earth is only 4 billion years old. The universe is about 14 billion years old. If God made both the Earth and the heavens at the same time, shouldn't they both be the same age?

But that's not what bothers me about this nonsense. What bothers me is that people believe that God made all those stars in the sky just so the Earth can have light during night time. You gotta be kiddin me, right?

Do you have any idea what is involved in making just 1 star? All that energy that a star generates and the complex life cycle it goes through, and the incredible distances that they are from Earth. If you can travel 300,000 kilometres every second (which is the speed of light), it would take you about 4 years to reach the nearest star to Earth besides our own Sun. All of the other stars we see at night are much further away than that. Some of those "lights in the sky" are entire galaxies billions of light years away from us, with hundreds of millions of stars in each of those galaxies themselves.

Compared to the contents of the known universe, Earth is a tiny insignificant speck of dust that is nothing exceptional except for the fact that intelligent life sprouted up from it. This happened because of a combination of factors that is required for life to evolve. Factors like water, vegetation, not too close or too far from a Sun, a breathable athmosphere, etc.

Before you say that it was God that created these conditions for us, these factors are not that rare in the universe. Well, it is rare, but even if only 1 planet in a BILLION have these conditions needed for life, then that means there are many thousands of planets just like Earth out there somewher in the universe. Mathematically speaking, these factors are likely to have occured by random chance, on several thousand of planets in just our own Milky Way Galaxy alone. And there are hundreds of millions of other galaxies in the universe, with millions of planets in total that has all the factors needed to sustain life. I can tell you right now with absolute certainty...intelligent life has evolved on some of those other planets too.

Maybe some of these alien civilizations have already died out millions of years ago when their star reached the end of its life cycle. Or maybe some of them have just started out recently (like us here on Earth). But mathematically speaking, the odds of Earth being the ONLY planet where intelligent life evolved anywhere in the universe, is practically zero. To give you an example of this, just look at our lottery winners every week. The odds of winning the lottery are millions to one, but someone usually wins every week. Imagine if one year we only had 1 person win the lottery in January, and then for the remainder of the entire year no one wins the lottery ever again. This is absurd and will never happen. Some lucky bastard always wins the lottery every week. So to say that Earth is the only planet with intelligent life, is like saying there will only be one lottery winner for a whole year, even though millions of people play the lottery every week, and they have a lottery draw 52 times a year.

But even us here on Earth is on borrowed time. Eventually, in about 3 billion years or so, our Sun will turn into a Red Giant and destroy all life on Earth. If the human race can actually survive for another 3 billion years (which is doubtful because of the way we are treating the environment and each other), we will have to move away from Earth before the Sun destroys it. This will involve technology much more sophisticated than we have now. The human race is not capable of a planetary evacuation with our current level of technology. But in 3 billion years from now, we will have technology that makes the space shuttle look like Fred Flinstone's car.

But to all the people that truly believe God created the universe just for us Earthlings, I gotta ask...
Why woud God make such an enormous universe full of burning and exploding stars, and full of entire galaxies at distances that we could never reach, all for the sake of Earth having a night light? Wouldn't it have been cheaper to just create one solar system, one Sun for us, and a couple of moons for Earth to have a nice light at night time? Even if you wanted to make a sky full of stars, it would not have been neccessary to make so many galaxies that are so far away from us that they they each look like one tiny light in the sky. Several million stars just in the Milky Way galaxy would have been more than enough to light up Earth's skies with stars. And what about the purpose of Venus and Jupiter and Mars, and all the other planets that share our local solar system? For that matter, what about all the other billions of planets from the other galaxies that cannot be seen with our eyes and are not emitting any light at all (only stars emit light)? We do not need those planets to survive on Earth. Those planets don't even provide light to Earth like the stars do. They're not even mentioned in the bible. So why would God bother to create these useless planets? There are other objects in the universe that do not emit light like asteroids and comets. The bible would have us believe that God had made billions of planets and asteroids and comets around the universe for no reason at all. Wow...the arrogance is mind-boggling to say the least.

I find it amusing that a grown adult could believe such nonsense from a book written in a time when mankind was much younger and much more naive. I'm not saying God did not create anything, I'm just saying that the bible doesn't give enough credit to God for his miraculous achievments in creating the universe. In fact, it is rather an insult to God that the incredible things that He created in the universe, with all those stars and galaxies and staggering distances, has been trivialized by the bible as simply to "give light on the Earth". It's like asking for a glass of water, and someone dumps the entire Atlantic Ocean in your mouth. It's a bit too much just for a glass of water. Likewise, creating billions of stars and millions of galaxies is a bit much simply to give Earth some light during the night.

Since modern man now knows what stars and galaxies are, to still claim that God made them for our night lights shows a staggering amount of arrogance and Narcissism. Early man did not know about the stars and galaxies, and how far away they were. In their eyes...they were just simply light for their night skies. But please do not make the claim that God was as ignorant and naive as early man was 2000 years ago. Isn't it obvious that this book was written by men who knew nothing about the universe? Isn't that more plausable than saying God created his most incredible achievment (which is the entire universe), just for the sake of providing some light to the side of the Earth that happens to be facing away from the Sun during its orbit?

I truly wish that we can move on from the Bible and make our world a much better place. Mankind has evolved now. We don't need an ancient book full of out-dated nonsense, written by men, NOT GOD, to control our lives anymore. Yes, the world is messed up right now, but that's not because we don't believe in the bible. It's because of corrupt and greed by powerful corporations and powerful politicians & leaders around the world. God created us with free choice, and this is what happened. It's up to us to fix our own mess.

Grow up people. It's time to respect God for his true powers, and for what he truly is.

Thank you for listening. I hope I have put some sense in some of you.

Now I'm ready to be accused of hating God, being evil, not believing in God, trying to corrupt your mind, and whatever else you want to conveniently throw at me to maintain your delusional state of mind about the Bible. Because you cannot argue back with logic, I know I will simply be called a non believer and devil or whatever. I'm expecting it, and I'm ready for it.

May God show you the logic,

Nathan