would take us about 5 and a half quadrillion years to go from one side to the
other.
All-Powerful Daddy
Now why is this relevant, you ask? “Of course, my god could have made all
that, he's all-powerful!” Well, you can say that and anything else about your
god that you so desire. But let's look at what your holy book says, shall we?
After all, it is what you base your faith on, yes?
There are multiple passages in the Bible that talk about the stars and the
sky. An example would be Genesis 1:14-18:
And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to
separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for
seasons, and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse
of the heavens to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. And God
made the two great lights; the greater light to rule the day and the
lesser light to rule the night; and the stars. And God set them in the
expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, to rule over the day
and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And
God saw that it was good."
For most Christians, this passage, along with every other passage about
stars in the Bible, demonstrates that God created the stars and knew
everything there is to know about them. But look at the passage again. All it
says is that God created the stars, the moon and the sun, and was proud of
his work. Why does it not say how the stars were made? Why are the words
stellar nucleosynthesis or hydrogen or helium never mentioned in a
thousand pages of scripture? It also says the stars, and the sun. Why
doesn't it ever make the connection that the sun is a star, just like all the
others in the sky? It's quite simple when one thinks about it. So simple that
it escapes most religious people when asked about it.
They. Didn't. Know.
How could they? They had no access to telescopes or the math necessary to
calculate the motions of our solar system. Algebra wouldn't even emerge
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