Seven Earth-Like Planets Found

[Loudmouth]

There is no conflict. Science supports a young Earth which the Bible strongly implies. So there is no reason to insert a gap theory between verses or to change a day in reference to a morning and night as being longer than a morning and night.


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What science is that?

 

[JackRT]

Scientists have been detecting planets through multiple methods for decades now. Are you saying they are just making it up?

Didn't you know that for five centuries millions of scientists and engineers, many of them Christians, have been perpetrating a world wide hoax?

 

[Loudmouth]

Didn't you know that for five centuries millions of scientists and engineers, many of them Christians, have been perpetrating a world wide hoax?

Shhhhh . . . it's supposed to be a secret!!!!!

 

[Cute Tink]

Science supports a young Earth

What science supports a young Earth?

 

[Wolfe]

That's exactly what I'm saying, I was posing that toward Jason since he seems to think that finding another Earth would be impossible because the Bible claims it is.

I can't seem to find the verse that says this is the one and only earth.

It'd be kind of confusing, and way too vague for the bible to say, A Earth, or One of the Earths.
It's The Earth, in the sense that it's the one that we live on presently.

 

[Wolfe]

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.

"very clear"
It says The Earth, not the one and only, or the only ever.

I think God is a creator, and if I was creating things, I wouldn't stop at just one.
In saying this, yes, I am saying I believe in the very real possibility of alien life.

 

[Wolfe]

Science supports a young Earth which the Bible strongly implies

No it doesn't.

It boils down to this, people put way too much stock on this old earth, new earth, evolution happened, didn't happen, on proving or disproving the Bible.
In reality, neither do anything to support, or refute it.

Science isn't some sort of weapon against God, or Christianity, it's used as such by the more ignorant.
It's simply a tool to figure out how things work, that's it.

 

[JackRT]

We must keep in mind that biblical cosmology envisioned a flat earth with a dome overhead enclosing a hemispherical space. To the ancients that was the universe. The moon, sun, planets and stars were simply lights within the hemisphere. They had no idea that the earth was a sphere or those lights above very frequently incredibly larger than the earth itself and were actually an incredibly long distance away.

 

[Heissonear]

And they're only 39 light years away!

Seven Earth-Like Planets Orbit One Nearby Star

Great to hear the speculation.

It use to be mostly geologists with such a habit, but grant seeking astrophysicists are starting to play the game.

 

[Heissonear]

What science supports a young Earth?

You will not hear it from bias men!

 

[Heissonear]

There is no conflict. Science supports a young Earth which the Bible strongly implies. So there is no reason to insert a gap theory between verses or to change a day in reference to a morning and night as being longer than a morning and night.


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There are members on CF hear just to fault find items like what you said, and to then give you insight into how things really are like.

The Earth is less than 10,000 years old.

There are a few things those who come to correct have hidden from them.

 

[HitchSlap]

Great to hear the speculation.

It use to be mostly geologists with such a habit, but grant seeking astrophysicists are starting to play the game.

Yep, all them gold digging astrophysicists raking in the dough.
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*actual astrophysicist office

 

[JackRT]

Yep, all them gold digging astrophysicists raking in the dough.
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*actual astrophysicist office

Preach it, Brother! Preach it! Do I get an Amen?

 

[SkyWriting]

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.

As one approaches light speed, relative time increases
Earth ---------->
<-------- Traveler
so that at the end of the trip, you've aged little
and the cosmos, close to infinite.

Going faster than light would make the cosmos
seem to evaporate.

 

[RC1970]

Scientists have been detecting planets through multiple methods for decades now. Are you saying they are just making it up?

I'm saying they don't have enough data to draw the conclusions they are drawing. They are detecting a need for more funding and what better way to get that funding than to announce a new "discovery" .

 

[Strathos]

Still does nothing for, or against Christians either way.

True. A planet vaguely similar to earth isn't a problem.

But if we literally found 'another earth', as in the Star Trek TOS episode 'Miri' (where everything, down to the shape of the continents and the life on it, including humans, was exactly the same) that could definitely have theological implications. Of course atheists would be hard-pressed to explain it as well.

 

[Cute Tink]

True. A planet vaguely similar to earth isn't a problem.

But if we literally found 'another earth', as in the Star Trek TOS episode 'Miri' (where everything, down to the shape of the continents and the life on it, including humans, was exactly the same) that could definitely have theological implications. Of course atheists would be hard-pressed to explain it as well.

Here's to having something in common!

 

[SkyWriting]

"Earth-like" in terms of the article has a rather specific definition, so I don't see how that counts as a "deception".

It will be interesting to see what we are able to find out about planets so relatively near to us. While they may not be overly habitable, they have potential.

The story says they likely don't spin, and they are so close, they'd be flame kissed by a solar flare up like chicken quarters on 4th of July B.B.Q.

 

[CrystalDragon]

And there is that, too. However, alien life does not exist. The encounters with aliens that have taken place here upon this Earth are all demonic deceptions. I remember watching a program that said that a person smelled brimstone when they had an alien encounter. The same thing has been reported with the appearances of ghosts, too. Brimstone is associated with hell in the Bible. In other words, if it sounds like a duck, chances are it is a duck. Then there is the owl thing. In the Bible, sometimes the appearance of the word "owls" is in reference to demons. This is crazy because there was a movie that came out called "The Fourth Kind" that links owls with alien encounters. Well, I seen the trailer and not the film, but this is what the trailer's selling point was all about. In fact, I had seen a video from a Pastor about a year or so before I had seen this movie trailer whereby the Pastor preached briefly about how the eyes of an owl are similar in appearance like the eyes of the grey aliens.


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What about reported alien encounters where the people are healed?

 

[HitchSlap]

As one approaches light speed, relative time increases
Earth ---------->
<-------- Traveler
so that at the end of the trip, you've aged little
and the cosmos, close to infinite.

Going faster than light would make the cosmos
seem to evaporate.

There once was a lady from Bright
Who traveled much faster than light
She left one day
In a most peculiar way
And returned on the previous night