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Edited on Thu Feb-05-04 06:23 PM by Ready4Change
A couple thousand years ago, people worshiped a diety who created a single world. It's people lived on a single flat land mass, surrounded by seas and covered with a sky some indeterminant height above the land. That sky had specs of light at night, some of which moved, plus the Sun, Moon, and clouds of various sorts.
But now we know our world is much larger than we thought. Even more, we know it is round, yet the people on the "bottom" don't fall off, nor even have any awareness of being upsidedown.
Even more, this world is but one of many which orbit the Sun. That sun is not unique. All the skies specs of lights are other worlds, or other suns. In fact, many billions of such "stars" are clumped together with our Sun-star, making up a system called a Galaxy, and there are billions of those.
The universe in which all this exists is itself changing in size. We struggle to find means of determining if it expands or shrinks, and if it will continue to do so, or reverse its motion.
At the same time we've expanded our view of the largeness of Gods creation, we also are finding spectacle in the SMALLNESS of that creation. All these wonderous things are made of tiny bits so small we can't see them with our eyes, nor with microscopes. In fact, our best knowlege of these bits is through mathematical calculations. These calculations give results close enough to what we can observe that we THINK we're on the right track, but like examining the expansion or contraction of the universe, we've much work to do in examining the smallest bits of that universe.
So, from an ancient world composed of what we could merely touch and see, todays God rules over an infinite universe containing billions of worlds, all made of tiny bits so small that only a few of us can even IMAGINE them.
God hasn't gotten smaller. The opposite, in fact. Furthermore, science gives us reason to suspect we've barely scratched the surface of Gods greatness.
All just my opinion.
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