I have been thinking a lot lately about the human condition and quite frankly it’s disgusting to look around the world.
I’ll be honest, I don’t really care for most people, I’m not a complete misanthrope, but the hypocrisy, the lack of drive to move forward, the contentment, these things drive me crazy.
I remember a quote from Socrates that I read years ago… okay remember is a strong word but I can paraphrase. He basically said that children were disrespectful to their elders, politicians were corrupt and businessmen were greedy.
He was describing his Greece about 1600 years ago, but what he was really doing was describing the human condition.
I know what most people think when faced with this, that it’s just human nature, and it’s very funny to me that they never think they belong in any of those categories, but we all do, it is after all, human nature.
But why do we restrain ourselves by our own nature? Early human nature was living in caves, eating fruit, and communicating by grunts. But we don’t do that anymore. Early human nature was to freak out and scream and act wild when something strange came into camp, even if it was another early human but we don’t do that anymore either.
The point is that we can overcome our own nature, the question is why we do not.
What happened to Nietzcshe’s ubermensch? What happened to human drive and our want to be better? Obviously our ancestors had it, but somewhere we seemed to have lost it.
We’ve dropped all of it and simply look to trod along the path even further to our own depressed demise.
The last place I worked was in an office filled with perfect examples of this quandary. My coworkers didn’t strive to be better, oh they talked about it, talked about how they prayed for their god to guide them and keep them, but that was the extent of their work. Otherwise they simply wanted to sit and fester in their own boring lives that are leading to the same places their ancestors went.
Some may say this is overly critical, some may say that life is simply to be enjoyed and both have a point. But I cannot abide to see the greatest potential of all the earth, the human mind, to sit and devote its time to how they’re going to have nicer things than their neighbors. To watch them suck up to assholes because they have a title. To watch nothing more than the newest form of feudal rule run the same course it has throughout history.
I grow weary of it and it angers me. The human brain and body are the two greatest tools on earth. To watch them wasted is, in my opinion, pointless.
Humanity has created a litany of fantasies and false reasoning so that they won’t kill themselves of boredom. We’ve created religions, gods and devils, and the worst of all the excuse of human nature all so that we don’t have to do the work, so that we don’t have to face the self.
Human nature is something to allow you to sleep at night when faced with the outside world, with its greed, with its corruption, with all its ugly truths. It allows us to placate our feelings about this, write them off, throw them out, and do nothing about it.
But human nature should never be an excuse for the self. To do so is to be weak. To tell oneself “that’s just the way I am” is to let go of all the power that a person has and accept being less than one is capable of. This is inexcusable.
I don’t mean to sound jaded or cynical, but there is simply no reason for all the problems of the world, we have the power to change the world for the better. Yet, we’d prefer to sit and be nothings. It’s easier that way, and our ego won’t get in the way and make us feel guilty because we have so many checks and defenses against it.
My point is very simple, be everything good that you can, and stop everything bad that you are. Learn, grow, push, do the things that scare you. But most importantly of all, be honest with yourself and never accept something you don’t like about yourself, it is your duty and your honor as a human to ever strive to be the ubermensch.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
God and his place in our world
For those who don’t know me, I come from a long line of Christian preachers. My father, his father, his father, and so on. I was literally supposed to be the next great preacher in the line. I think it’s safe to say that will never happen.
For some time when I was making my switch from devout Christian to strict non-believer I had more than a few discussions with my parents.
One of the argument techniques my father has used for some time is that he simply bombards you with information. He shows you how much he knows about the bible and dares you to defy. He does this because he knows that 99.9% of people don’t have near the biblical knowledge that he does.
He’s a studier, he doesn’t just read the bible, he studies the translations of words, what the original Greek, Hebrew or Aramaic texts say. And I will give him credit, he knows his stuff very well.
But one day I flipped the tables, for as much as he did know about the bible and his faith, there was plenty of history about that book and that faith that he didn’t know. So I used his own trick on him… needless to say he didn’t care for my tactic too much, no one wants to be beaten by their own signature move.
It was nice to be able to “win” one, as though winning is actually possible in these instances but it still felt good. But to be honest, I regret it now.
Now people won’t talk to me about faith and religion if they disagree with me, the reason is simple, they know they do not know the history like I do, they know I can rip apart a bible verse with little problem or effort. Basically, people have become intimidated by how much I’ve studied.
I’m not bragging by any stretch, for every person that makes me feel smart there are plenty that I listen to and realize how much I don’t know.
But the thing I hate is that people always tell me how I need to “get back to god” and when I go to tell them that won’t be happening they immediately begin to back off saying “Well I can’t debate it with you from an academic stand point so I’m not even going to try.”
That’s the coward’s way out. God has never rested anywhere other than the imagination, he is an idea, a philosophical metaphor. The easiest way to tell that is to go to a local church on Sunday morning and ask as many people in the service to define god to you. Not one answer will be the same.
How is that possible? This God allegedly is the founder of the three not so great monotheistic religions. Yet no one defines him the same. Even with thousands of pages of texts to describe the mysterious diety, the interpretations are all different.
Of course it’s not possible, and that’s one of the very reasons that Christianity and every other religion are a bunch of bunk.
The sooner people realize that God is an idea to be discussed in realm of philosophy and not the author of existence, the better off all people will be.
Fight the good fight, don’t stoop to their level, and cover the world with reason.
For some time when I was making my switch from devout Christian to strict non-believer I had more than a few discussions with my parents.
One of the argument techniques my father has used for some time is that he simply bombards you with information. He shows you how much he knows about the bible and dares you to defy. He does this because he knows that 99.9% of people don’t have near the biblical knowledge that he does.
He’s a studier, he doesn’t just read the bible, he studies the translations of words, what the original Greek, Hebrew or Aramaic texts say. And I will give him credit, he knows his stuff very well.
But one day I flipped the tables, for as much as he did know about the bible and his faith, there was plenty of history about that book and that faith that he didn’t know. So I used his own trick on him… needless to say he didn’t care for my tactic too much, no one wants to be beaten by their own signature move.
It was nice to be able to “win” one, as though winning is actually possible in these instances but it still felt good. But to be honest, I regret it now.
Now people won’t talk to me about faith and religion if they disagree with me, the reason is simple, they know they do not know the history like I do, they know I can rip apart a bible verse with little problem or effort. Basically, people have become intimidated by how much I’ve studied.
I’m not bragging by any stretch, for every person that makes me feel smart there are plenty that I listen to and realize how much I don’t know.
But the thing I hate is that people always tell me how I need to “get back to god” and when I go to tell them that won’t be happening they immediately begin to back off saying “Well I can’t debate it with you from an academic stand point so I’m not even going to try.”
That’s the coward’s way out. God has never rested anywhere other than the imagination, he is an idea, a philosophical metaphor. The easiest way to tell that is to go to a local church on Sunday morning and ask as many people in the service to define god to you. Not one answer will be the same.
How is that possible? This God allegedly is the founder of the three not so great monotheistic religions. Yet no one defines him the same. Even with thousands of pages of texts to describe the mysterious diety, the interpretations are all different.
Of course it’s not possible, and that’s one of the very reasons that Christianity and every other religion are a bunch of bunk.
The sooner people realize that God is an idea to be discussed in realm of philosophy and not the author of existence, the better off all people will be.
Fight the good fight, don’t stoop to their level, and cover the world with reason.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
America the pathetic
Hey everybody,
I'm sorry it's taken so long for me to make a new post been a lot of stuff going on since the new year and we're half way thru it.
Anyway, on to the post.
I'm gonna be honest, my grandfather fought in WW2, the stories he told before he died were atrocious. He was a Navy man, and please don't be one of those idiots who disrespect the Navy, if you think that Navy men only provide rides for the Marines then you're an idiot.
He was in the Navy in the forties, think about that. He faced not only the inherent problems of being a member of a crew at sea but this was the hey day of Japanese Kamikaze planes.
His stories of the war were few and far between, he only talked about it when he was on medication near his death, or when he was with friends who actually fought with him.
It wasn't a matter of pride, it was a matter of no one understanding what he went thru.
If you're a real person, one who realizes the stresses of not only history but the human condition then read on.
My grandfather didn't risk his life for a matter of pride or the name of a president or even the colors of the flag flying on his ship. He risked his life for you and me. Don't get it wrong, he fought because it was the right thing to do.
Think about that time, it wasn't about propaganda, it was a heavenly mixture for any politician at the time.
It was a dream for, well, the American dream. Hitler and Mussolini came forth and were exactly what Americans were waiting to get off on. A true enemy who genuinely seemed evil and determined to rule the world.
Hitler was a man who knew what he wanted, and he would not stop until he controlled all of the earth.
I know, you're sitting there talking about how terrible that was, but the catch is that you're a hypocrite if you do think that.
The American way is based on greed. Greed, last I checked, is, according to every philosopher and religion, the worst of all human emotions. It ties into to hubris and avarice.
Truth is, America is only an idea, nothing more. People like to say they love this country, but let's be honest, it's just a fantasy. No one is actually an American. Why? Because America exists in no place but the mind.
Land of the free and home of the brave? We haven't been either. Lately we've been the land of the hypocrite and home of the weak, material-oriented pansies.
It's not about the best for this country anymore, it's about what is best for the rich. That's what Bush followed, the rich.
Bottom line is this, America was founded on dissonance and dissension, if you don't get that then you need a history refresher.
Religion has taken over this country, and in the end it will ruin this country.
Either way I will always follow the maxim of Thomas Paine "All the world is my country, it's inhabitants my brethren, and to do good is my religion."
Unfortunately this has become a theocracy, the most pathetic of institutions.
Only the weak follow religion, the strong follow logic and reason.
Best of wishes to all,
The Captain
I'm sorry it's taken so long for me to make a new post been a lot of stuff going on since the new year and we're half way thru it.
Anyway, on to the post.
I'm gonna be honest, my grandfather fought in WW2, the stories he told before he died were atrocious. He was a Navy man, and please don't be one of those idiots who disrespect the Navy, if you think that Navy men only provide rides for the Marines then you're an idiot.
He was in the Navy in the forties, think about that. He faced not only the inherent problems of being a member of a crew at sea but this was the hey day of Japanese Kamikaze planes.
His stories of the war were few and far between, he only talked about it when he was on medication near his death, or when he was with friends who actually fought with him.
It wasn't a matter of pride, it was a matter of no one understanding what he went thru.
If you're a real person, one who realizes the stresses of not only history but the human condition then read on.
My grandfather didn't risk his life for a matter of pride or the name of a president or even the colors of the flag flying on his ship. He risked his life for you and me. Don't get it wrong, he fought because it was the right thing to do.
Think about that time, it wasn't about propaganda, it was a heavenly mixture for any politician at the time.
It was a dream for, well, the American dream. Hitler and Mussolini came forth and were exactly what Americans were waiting to get off on. A true enemy who genuinely seemed evil and determined to rule the world.
Hitler was a man who knew what he wanted, and he would not stop until he controlled all of the earth.
I know, you're sitting there talking about how terrible that was, but the catch is that you're a hypocrite if you do think that.
The American way is based on greed. Greed, last I checked, is, according to every philosopher and religion, the worst of all human emotions. It ties into to hubris and avarice.
Truth is, America is only an idea, nothing more. People like to say they love this country, but let's be honest, it's just a fantasy. No one is actually an American. Why? Because America exists in no place but the mind.
Land of the free and home of the brave? We haven't been either. Lately we've been the land of the hypocrite and home of the weak, material-oriented pansies.
It's not about the best for this country anymore, it's about what is best for the rich. That's what Bush followed, the rich.
Bottom line is this, America was founded on dissonance and dissension, if you don't get that then you need a history refresher.
Religion has taken over this country, and in the end it will ruin this country.
Either way I will always follow the maxim of Thomas Paine "All the world is my country, it's inhabitants my brethren, and to do good is my religion."
Unfortunately this has become a theocracy, the most pathetic of institutions.
Only the weak follow religion, the strong follow logic and reason.
Best of wishes to all,
The Captain
Monday, December 15, 2008
The War
Yes, yes, Bushie got a shoe thrown at him. Very funny, but not the point here, it is merely one leaf on a very large tree.
Let’s be honest, this was a mistake, even Bush has admitted that intel on Iraq could have been better, which is about the best you’re going to get out of him. We should never have gone there, never have invaded, never have had anything to do with them. They were of no threat to us, and it turns out that Saddam actually held that country together a whole helluva lot better than democracy has.
It’s time we all be honest, I’m sick of the fairy tale books we all try to live in. Some times tyranny is the best way to govern a people. It’s as simple as that. We love what freedom we have, but the real reason we love that freedom, and the illusions that go along with it, is because our collective national identity relishes in the history of fighting for those freedoms.
Our forefathers earned the country that is America by fighting against what they saw as tyranny. We had help yes, from (gasp!) France, but France did not do it for us. Do you really think if France had decided to free the people of the colonies that 1) they would have given us democracy rather than claim us as their own or 2) that we would truly appreciate it? We would not.
Think of it this way, take two teenagers, give one a brand new sportscar, give the other a job over the summer to buy an old car of his choosing. Who respects their car more? The one who worked for it, always. If you don’t work for it, earn it in some way then you never really appreciate the rewards. Does sleep itself not seem all the more sweet after a day of really hard manual labor?
What’s worse in the article linked above the commenters are enough to drive one crazy. One says they don’t like to see the American flag burning and they want our nation to be respected. That’s just idiotic. It’s a piece of cloth in a recognized pattern, to try to make it anything more is purely silly.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the ideals that America was built on, no matter how far removed from those ideals we may be today. But a flag is just a flag, a name just a name, and an object is truly nothing more than an object.
It’s not the wedding ring that makes a marriage, it’s the love and commitment of the two people. The ring is only a symbol. Without the love and commitment the ring is just a trinket, without the ring the love and commitment can flourish nonetheless. So goes the flag, without it, without the name of America would the ideals not be the same?
If others want to burn it then so be it. It’s not like they did it here in front of you, they did it in their own country, if you hate it that bad go buy an Iraqi flag and start a bonfire, knock yourself out. But stop acting like we don’t deserve the disrespect of it. We do, and if you can’t see that then you really should meet a friend of mine by the name of reality.
We barged into a country unasked, took over the place, and tried to make them live by our rules. All the while saying we’re doing it for their freedom and our protection?
Sounds to me a lot like we’re doing the very thing we’re afraid of. We’ve become what we hate, we’ve become that which our foundation was meant to squash. What we’re doing is little more than active societal eugenics. Killing off the ugly parts we don’t like and trying our damnedest to make others look like us. But they don’t want to be us, and I don’t blame them, I don’t want to be them either. They’re them, we’re us, and while we should respect one another, we should not inflict our cultures on one another.
I’m sorry but it’s time to go. We’ve spent $350 billion plus, tens of thousands of lives have been lost, young men and women who have no real say in the policy that we enforce are dying for those policies, we weren’t invited, we don’t want to be there, they don’t want us there, get the fuck out. Why is this so hard?
Leave it in shambles if that’s what it takes, it’s what’s going to happen anyway until one sect gains enough power to instill their own tyranny and we’ll be right back where we started. Except we’ll be in a depression and have a lot less young lives looking forward to the world ahead. All those lives, all that money, all those resources lost. How many hungry could have been fed, how many homeless housed, how many new jobs, how much better could the world truly be if we had left years ago, or not gone in at all?
And we need to face facts, that area is not ready for peaceful democracy, for whatever reason. It’s not that they’re not good enough, or not capable, they’re just not ready. It’s like many countries in Africa that are war torn cycling thru one revolution after another. They have to figure it out on their own, in their own way, in their own time. It’s the only way it has ever worked in all of humanity.
We have to come home, and we have to stop fooling ourselves, no one has won here, not the Iraqis and certainly not us.
Let’s be honest, this was a mistake, even Bush has admitted that intel on Iraq could have been better, which is about the best you’re going to get out of him. We should never have gone there, never have invaded, never have had anything to do with them. They were of no threat to us, and it turns out that Saddam actually held that country together a whole helluva lot better than democracy has.
It’s time we all be honest, I’m sick of the fairy tale books we all try to live in. Some times tyranny is the best way to govern a people. It’s as simple as that. We love what freedom we have, but the real reason we love that freedom, and the illusions that go along with it, is because our collective national identity relishes in the history of fighting for those freedoms.
Our forefathers earned the country that is America by fighting against what they saw as tyranny. We had help yes, from (gasp!) France, but France did not do it for us. Do you really think if France had decided to free the people of the colonies that 1) they would have given us democracy rather than claim us as their own or 2) that we would truly appreciate it? We would not.
Think of it this way, take two teenagers, give one a brand new sportscar, give the other a job over the summer to buy an old car of his choosing. Who respects their car more? The one who worked for it, always. If you don’t work for it, earn it in some way then you never really appreciate the rewards. Does sleep itself not seem all the more sweet after a day of really hard manual labor?
What’s worse in the article linked above the commenters are enough to drive one crazy. One says they don’t like to see the American flag burning and they want our nation to be respected. That’s just idiotic. It’s a piece of cloth in a recognized pattern, to try to make it anything more is purely silly.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the ideals that America was built on, no matter how far removed from those ideals we may be today. But a flag is just a flag, a name just a name, and an object is truly nothing more than an object.
It’s not the wedding ring that makes a marriage, it’s the love and commitment of the two people. The ring is only a symbol. Without the love and commitment the ring is just a trinket, without the ring the love and commitment can flourish nonetheless. So goes the flag, without it, without the name of America would the ideals not be the same?
If others want to burn it then so be it. It’s not like they did it here in front of you, they did it in their own country, if you hate it that bad go buy an Iraqi flag and start a bonfire, knock yourself out. But stop acting like we don’t deserve the disrespect of it. We do, and if you can’t see that then you really should meet a friend of mine by the name of reality.
We barged into a country unasked, took over the place, and tried to make them live by our rules. All the while saying we’re doing it for their freedom and our protection?
Sounds to me a lot like we’re doing the very thing we’re afraid of. We’ve become what we hate, we’ve become that which our foundation was meant to squash. What we’re doing is little more than active societal eugenics. Killing off the ugly parts we don’t like and trying our damnedest to make others look like us. But they don’t want to be us, and I don’t blame them, I don’t want to be them either. They’re them, we’re us, and while we should respect one another, we should not inflict our cultures on one another.
I’m sorry but it’s time to go. We’ve spent $350 billion plus, tens of thousands of lives have been lost, young men and women who have no real say in the policy that we enforce are dying for those policies, we weren’t invited, we don’t want to be there, they don’t want us there, get the fuck out. Why is this so hard?
Leave it in shambles if that’s what it takes, it’s what’s going to happen anyway until one sect gains enough power to instill their own tyranny and we’ll be right back where we started. Except we’ll be in a depression and have a lot less young lives looking forward to the world ahead. All those lives, all that money, all those resources lost. How many hungry could have been fed, how many homeless housed, how many new jobs, how much better could the world truly be if we had left years ago, or not gone in at all?
And we need to face facts, that area is not ready for peaceful democracy, for whatever reason. It’s not that they’re not good enough, or not capable, they’re just not ready. It’s like many countries in Africa that are war torn cycling thru one revolution after another. They have to figure it out on their own, in their own way, in their own time. It’s the only way it has ever worked in all of humanity.
We have to come home, and we have to stop fooling ourselves, no one has won here, not the Iraqis and certainly not us.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Focus on the Family Playing Santa… to Retailers
Ya know those idiots who seem to want to focus on what your family is doing wrong? They’re at it again.
They’ve come up with a “naughty or nice” list concerning the language that retailers use in their holiday advertisements. If a company uses “Merry Christmas” they are said to be “Christmas-friendly” retailers. If they use “Happy Holidays” then they are deemed “Christmas-offensive”, those who use both phrases are said to be “Christmas-negligent.”
This is one of the dumber things I’ve heard, a group of people who are supposedly followers of Jesus are going to selectively procure their materialism by standards of the faith? Ah yes, I vividly remember sitting in Sunday School to hear the parable of where Jesus wanted to buy his ipod from. Remember how Peter was all like “My lord, let’s go to Best Buy” and Jesus said “Nay naïve! Verily I say unto thee that he who doth not use ‘Christmas’ in their holiday advertisements shall never know the glories of Heaven.”
FoF went so far as to send out letters that basically stated we could boycott you if you don’t change your wording. Gap’s response? “So”, I’m paraphrasing of course.
I just hate this type of stuff. One, it doesn’t even fit your own meaning of Christmas, good will towards men and what not. Second, why do the xtians insist on acting like Christmas is their holiday? Oh right, because they teach their kids lies about the holiday and they just keep getting passed down.
To any Christians reading this, #1) points for bravery, well done, and #2) do you not find it odd that the Pagans (gasp!) had their biggest holidays in late December and somewhere around March / April. Then the Christians drove out the heathen pagans so that they could make their holidays most important which just so happen to also be in late December and around March / April? Look it up!
They’ve come up with a “naughty or nice” list concerning the language that retailers use in their holiday advertisements. If a company uses “Merry Christmas” they are said to be “Christmas-friendly” retailers. If they use “Happy Holidays” then they are deemed “Christmas-offensive”, those who use both phrases are said to be “Christmas-negligent.”
This is one of the dumber things I’ve heard, a group of people who are supposedly followers of Jesus are going to selectively procure their materialism by standards of the faith? Ah yes, I vividly remember sitting in Sunday School to hear the parable of where Jesus wanted to buy his ipod from. Remember how Peter was all like “My lord, let’s go to Best Buy” and Jesus said “Nay naïve! Verily I say unto thee that he who doth not use ‘Christmas’ in their holiday advertisements shall never know the glories of Heaven.”
FoF went so far as to send out letters that basically stated we could boycott you if you don’t change your wording. Gap’s response? “So”, I’m paraphrasing of course.
I just hate this type of stuff. One, it doesn’t even fit your own meaning of Christmas, good will towards men and what not. Second, why do the xtians insist on acting like Christmas is their holiday? Oh right, because they teach their kids lies about the holiday and they just keep getting passed down.
To any Christians reading this, #1) points for bravery, well done, and #2) do you not find it odd that the Pagans (gasp!) had their biggest holidays in late December and somewhere around March / April. Then the Christians drove out the heathen pagans so that they could make their holidays most important which just so happen to also be in late December and around March / April? Look it up!
Religion v Atheism in the Battle for Visual Perception Supremacy
There was an interesting study done at Leiden University in the Netherlands concerning the visual techniques of both atheists and Dutch Calvinists. The point of the study was to prove whether or not religious differences might skew perception. I’m surprised anyone pondered this, of course it skews perception.
The findings show that the Calvinists were able to pick out smaller shapes 30 milliseconds faster than atheists on average.
I have no problem with this, it doesn’t upset me because it doesn’t really prove much. The problem I have is with the conclusions the researchers draw.
My favorite is this one from one of the lead scientists:
“He suggests it may even be a cognitive consequence of their religion and speculates that Calvinists might be more inward looking than atheists because they have lived their whole lives with an emphasis on minding their own business.”
Hmmm, now I’ll be honest, Dutch Calvinism is a little outside of my range of expertise on religion, but, I can say with some certainty that no religion has ever minded its own business.
The conclusions seem decidedly slanted toward religion rather than science. Maybe the atheists were slower because they were taking in the whole picture while the Calvinists faith led them to look for something they believed was there without knowing it.
Personally, I don’t know what this means, or what it might even imply, I just thought it was interesting and that I’d pass it on.
The findings show that the Calvinists were able to pick out smaller shapes 30 milliseconds faster than atheists on average.
I have no problem with this, it doesn’t upset me because it doesn’t really prove much. The problem I have is with the conclusions the researchers draw.
My favorite is this one from one of the lead scientists:
“He suggests it may even be a cognitive consequence of their religion and speculates that Calvinists might be more inward looking than atheists because they have lived their whole lives with an emphasis on minding their own business.”
Hmmm, now I’ll be honest, Dutch Calvinism is a little outside of my range of expertise on religion, but, I can say with some certainty that no religion has ever minded its own business.
The conclusions seem decidedly slanted toward religion rather than science. Maybe the atheists were slower because they were taking in the whole picture while the Calvinists faith led them to look for something they believed was there without knowing it.
Personally, I don’t know what this means, or what it might even imply, I just thought it was interesting and that I’d pass it on.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Wonderful News... From Space!
According to this story from NPR (and I’m sure there are better sites out there for this but I’m pressed for time) we now have actual photos of extrasolar planets.
This is amazing, before now planets from other stars had only been detected by indirect methods, typically by watching for a “wobble” caused by the gravitational forces on the star itself. But now to have actual photographs of other planets is phenomenal.
In this picture the two dots show where the planet was in 2004 and then again in 2006. The planet orbits a star known as Formalhaut which is about 25 light years from earth and the planet is known as Formalhaut b. It is a gas giant, much larger than Jupiter and it orbits about a 100 times farther from its sun than earth does from ours.
It is believed to be a shepherd planet keeping the massive dust ring from the star neat and tidy much like the shepherd moons of Saturn keeps its rings nice and tight. The planet itself is also believed to have rings of its own.
Allegedly, a team of international astronomers has stated that they’ve found a small solar system orbiting star HR 8799. There are three gas like planets, each of which is at least 5 times larger than Jupiter orbiting this star.
To me this brings up a good question about god and evolution. What possible purpose could there be for other solar systems? If one reads the bible its clear to see that man on this planet is the focus so why the possibility of more life? And if there is no life then what is the point of the extra creation?
Even in our own solar system the other 7 planets are useless to mankind in a strictly religious sense. They’re not habitable and even if they were there’s no way to even get to them really other than Mars maybe.
It just makes no sense, evolution answers why these planets are here in the fact that matter reacts to gravity and forms these things. But according to the bible god would have had to create these seemingly for no reason.
This is amazing, before now planets from other stars had only been detected by indirect methods, typically by watching for a “wobble” caused by the gravitational forces on the star itself. But now to have actual photographs of other planets is phenomenal.
In this picture the two dots show where the planet was in 2004 and then again in 2006. The planet orbits a star known as Formalhaut which is about 25 light years from earth and the planet is known as Formalhaut b. It is a gas giant, much larger than Jupiter and it orbits about a 100 times farther from its sun than earth does from ours.
It is believed to be a shepherd planet keeping the massive dust ring from the star neat and tidy much like the shepherd moons of Saturn keeps its rings nice and tight. The planet itself is also believed to have rings of its own.
Allegedly, a team of international astronomers has stated that they’ve found a small solar system orbiting star HR 8799. There are three gas like planets, each of which is at least 5 times larger than Jupiter orbiting this star.
To me this brings up a good question about god and evolution. What possible purpose could there be for other solar systems? If one reads the bible its clear to see that man on this planet is the focus so why the possibility of more life? And if there is no life then what is the point of the extra creation?
Even in our own solar system the other 7 planets are useless to mankind in a strictly religious sense. They’re not habitable and even if they were there’s no way to even get to them really other than Mars maybe.
It just makes no sense, evolution answers why these planets are here in the fact that matter reacts to gravity and forms these things. But according to the bible god would have had to create these seemingly for no reason.
In my opinion this is just another victory for science that will mostly go unrecognized by the rest of this country.
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