Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
imagining a world without religion and wishing athe the space program would somehow disparove the existance of god and thus lead to the abandonment of religion.
Here's a thought...
Space is extremely hazardous to life...
Radiation, which is abundant in outer space, can sterialize multicelled organism and even mutate cell structure and DNA.
No amount of metal can protect from this.
The earth is 12 minutes away from total destruction... one huge solar flair from the sun and the protective ozone layer around the earth is gone... like a candle blown out in the wind.... and all life on the surface of the planet will die in a matter of a few months.
What if there really is no other life out there...
then...perhaps... there is a God.... but is that god a christian god, or a Muslim god... perhaps... the Aztecs were right!
In many ways scientists use what we know about earth to understand the rest of the universe... geology.. the formation of rocks... properties of light... heat... radiation.. on and on....
If the Earths ecosystem is also a microcosm of the universe... then we better be worried....
Sea turtle's are born by the thousands and die just as many...
Fish... spides... all species... some spawn millions and only a few thousand survive... Even the Earth is hostile to life... if it's not the environment... it's the preditors.. death is often instantious...
There's the quick... and there's the dead.
Is the Earth one giant egg.... incubating our species... protecting us while we develop.... as we multiply and consume we heat up the planet like a corpse heats up as it decays from a bazillion micro organism digest it... and eventually... we burst out into the universe to find another planetn and spawn another generation....
If the Earth is a microcosm... and the Universal is a macrocosm... then in the Universal Ecosystem... that means there are other species...
Does a catepillar realize how big the world is before it develops wings and flies?
Do humans realize how big the universe is?
What if our goal is to learn how to work together - like a colony of ants... and what if we don't... we die... Extinction... what if we are the only of our kind left... driven to the out skirts of the milky way...
this is our last chance to survive....
Any way... it's time for the simpson... can save the universe and all mankind another day...
cheers