Seven Earth-Like Planets Found
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Assuming it's true (like NASA isn't lying to deceive us or trying to get our hopes up or anything), and assuming they could be habitable, I'd hope that faster-than-light travel could exist soon. The fact that there's seven Earth-like ones in one system is pretty awesome.
Although since they're much closer to their star it has me wonder if life (let alone us humans) could live on them without frying our eyeballs. They can't be sure if they're Earth-like enough yet aside from size and distance.
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"Earth like" does not mean it is like our Earth whereby people can live on these planets. Therein lies the deception. Also, they have not confirmed if these planets are actually like Earth in any way. They are still making huge guesses about these planets from far away. The chances of these planets being able to support life by the reports so far seems like a .... "zero." In Genesis God created the heavens and the EARTH (singular). This means that there are no other Earths out there. Sorry to let you down there folks. God and His Word are still true.
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If this isn't real then how did they get all those sweet pics?
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When I say that a guy looks dog like, he has to resemble a dog in some way in appearance in order for him to be dog like. If I tell people that we found Earth like planets, the first thing they are going to think is hurray, we can get off this horrible rock and go somewhere better. To be "Earth like" it has to be a planet that has got to be able to support life in some way.
So there should be no celebrations by atheists as a result of this find whereby they can claim Christians are all wrong now.
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People make hypothetical questions all the time even if there's no chance of it actually happening, and people answer. That's how thought experiments are done. The least you could do is answer the thought experiment.
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But in this case, it is just not even a possibility. I ony entertain thoughts of what I might say or do if such a thing was a possibility. Seeing I do not believe that this could ever happen, I do not need to worry about what I would say.
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She's saying that if and when it does happen, however slim or impossible for it to happen, what would you say in this unlikely situation?
Kind of like, what you would ask, or say to batman, or superman.
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Superman is not a possibility seeing there is no alien life on other planets.
If a real to life batman existed, I would say to him,
"Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord." (Romans 12:19).
Anyways, this kind of reminds me of a report I heard when I was a kid. When I was little and living in Cleveland at the time, I remember a report from the Cleveland Plaindealer that a guy had dressed up as spider man and clmbed one of the buildings in downtown Cleveland. Needless to say he was arrested (Thereby ending his superhero career).
In any event, I do not see the discovery of another Earth like planet happening because Genesis 1:1 makes it very clear that there is only one Earth and not two.
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I think the excitement is not that humans could live there, but planets in that zone could possibly have oceans. Meaning the possibility of finding actual 'alien life' is higher then say one of the planets in our solar system.
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No worries there. They would probably give it an odd designation. So there would still just be one earth.
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Discovering facts and the interpretation of those facts are two different things. The interpretation of the facts presented by scientist who are atheists are slanted towards their world belief of atheism.
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Not necessarily. In this case, they have the temperature range that is comparable with earth, likely rocky and capable of having liquid water. Even being capable of supporting life doesn't mean that we could just drop onto it right away anyway.
Also, people are routinely called "dogs" because of their behavior, appearance notwithstanding.
I don't know how many Christians hold the same belief that life cannot exist elsewhere in the universe, but this discovery has nothing at all to do with Atheism and it's not about whether Christianity is right or wrong or whether this potential discovery supports a conclusion either way.
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