- Jun 15, 2004
- 3,009
- 198
- 44
- Faith
- Atheist
- Marital Status
- Single
- Politics
- US-Others
I was sitting down today and listening to a little music and I had a thought. I've heard many arguments here from creationists who argue that the age of the earth is exactly 6000 years old. I've also heard arguments here from those that believe that man is the most important creation of God in the universe. I've also heard from some of you that there is likely to be no other life anywhere else because it's not mentioned in the Bible, perhaps.
Well I just want to run this by you. Consider the following:
In our galaxy we know that there are a certain number of stars. We do not know the exact number, but we can take a sampling of perhaps a million stars at random points in the universe, find their average mass (which is generally around 0.8 solar masses) and divide that into the known mass of the Galaxy. Now planets and space dust do contribute to part of the total mass, however compared to the density of stars they can be somewhat negligible. Remember, the total mass of all of our planets, asteroids, and moons in our solar system only equals about a tenth or less of the mass of our Sun.
So, we can derive a round approximation of the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy - and that is around 150,000,000,000 stars. The number could be as low as 100,000,000,000, or as high as 250,000,000,000, but for the sake of this argument we will use a number of 150 billion.
Now, let's say today we started physically going out to each star and exploring it. Also, let's say that we can teleport out to the star and gather all the data we need within a second. That is a very unrealistic amount of time to do that but for the sake of this argument, let's just speculate what it would be like if we had the power to do that.
With that, it would take 150,000,000,000 seconds to completely explore every single star. How long is that? Well a billion seconds is generally 32 years. So, with 150 billion seconds we would need 4,800 years to explore every single star in that method.
There are also 200,000,000,000 galaxies in our universe. So, with that in mind for our argument, we would need almost one QUADRILLION years to explore every single star in the universe if we only spent one second on it.
I think that's a very humbling thought, and although it may be a little erroneous somewhere with the numbers, the facts remain. Why would there be a need to create a universe so expansive that it would take us 4 quadrillion years at least to explore every single star in it? Why would God try to create something so huge and so expansive for an Earth that has only been around for 6000 years? Why, if the Bible is the word of god, would it ignore the 10^25 other star systems in the universe for just our own?
And, why would there be a need for some God to come back down and take everyone back out of this incredible universe before we even had the chance to explore his supposed 'creation'?
I'm not sure if this goes in the apologetics forum or not, but since it deals with science I feel this is the place for it to be.
Any questions? Comments?
Well I just want to run this by you. Consider the following:
In our galaxy we know that there are a certain number of stars. We do not know the exact number, but we can take a sampling of perhaps a million stars at random points in the universe, find their average mass (which is generally around 0.8 solar masses) and divide that into the known mass of the Galaxy. Now planets and space dust do contribute to part of the total mass, however compared to the density of stars they can be somewhat negligible. Remember, the total mass of all of our planets, asteroids, and moons in our solar system only equals about a tenth or less of the mass of our Sun.
So, we can derive a round approximation of the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy - and that is around 150,000,000,000 stars. The number could be as low as 100,000,000,000, or as high as 250,000,000,000, but for the sake of this argument we will use a number of 150 billion.
Now, let's say today we started physically going out to each star and exploring it. Also, let's say that we can teleport out to the star and gather all the data we need within a second. That is a very unrealistic amount of time to do that but for the sake of this argument, let's just speculate what it would be like if we had the power to do that.
With that, it would take 150,000,000,000 seconds to completely explore every single star. How long is that? Well a billion seconds is generally 32 years. So, with 150 billion seconds we would need 4,800 years to explore every single star in that method.
There are also 200,000,000,000 galaxies in our universe. So, with that in mind for our argument, we would need almost one QUADRILLION years to explore every single star in the universe if we only spent one second on it.
I think that's a very humbling thought, and although it may be a little erroneous somewhere with the numbers, the facts remain. Why would there be a need to create a universe so expansive that it would take us 4 quadrillion years at least to explore every single star in it? Why would God try to create something so huge and so expansive for an Earth that has only been around for 6000 years? Why, if the Bible is the word of god, would it ignore the 10^25 other star systems in the universe for just our own?
And, why would there be a need for some God to come back down and take everyone back out of this incredible universe before we even had the chance to explore his supposed 'creation'?
I'm not sure if this goes in the apologetics forum or not, but since it deals with science I feel this is the place for it to be.
Any questions? Comments?
