Have you read the book "Horton Hears a Who?" The premise is that an entire little town, complete with little people, all live on a speck of dust which is sitting on a flower. The flower is being held by an elephant in its trunk. The elephant (i.e. Horton) thinks it hears something on the speck (i.e. the 'who'), but is not sure.
I was doing some thinking about man's arrogance, especially about origins science (so called).
Man states proudly that there is no God. That he knows the age of the universe, that he can tell how everything formed. This is from a astronomically small sample size.
Man states proudly that there is no God. That he knows the age of the universe, that he can tell how everything formed. This is from a astronomically small sample size.
We estimate we can only see about 28 billion light years out. That's a good bit. 28 Billion light years is too big a number to understand. Let's take the nearest star. Our next door neighbor.
Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to Earth at 4.242 Light years. The fastest man-made object ever is the Helios space probe. It was tracked at 153,800 mph. At this speed, it would take that probe 18,509 years just to make it next door. Even if we could travel at the speed of light (which is 670,616.629 mph) it would take about four years and three months.
This universe is so vast, and we've only viewed a tiny fraction of it! Even though we've never even been next door, humanity is acting like we know everything! We brag about our smarts and make grand pronouncements about how things are, all from a single vantage-point. It's like trying to describe the entire Atlantic Ocean by looking out window at Myrtle Beach!
We, as humans, think we're so smart, but we are like the Who's in Whoville, specs living on a spec.
Proxima Centauri is the nearest star to Earth at 4.242 Light years. The fastest man-made object ever is the Helios space probe. It was tracked at 153,800 mph. At this speed, it would take that probe 18,509 years just to make it next door. Even if we could travel at the speed of light (which is 670,616.629 mph) it would take about four years and three months.
This universe is so vast, and we've only viewed a tiny fraction of it! Even though we've never even been next door, humanity is acting like we know everything! We brag about our smarts and make grand pronouncements about how things are, all from a single vantage-point. It's like trying to describe the entire Atlantic Ocean by looking out window at Myrtle Beach!
We, as humans, think we're so smart, but we are like the Who's in Whoville, specs living on a spec.
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