Church & Faith at Pulpit Rock...: Existence requires belief

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Existence requires belief

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol. It is very difficult to prove quite a few things with any technical assurity, a certain amount of belief must come into play. Existence reveals itself slowly to us and as this happens we learn there is quite a bit more to things than we imagined previously. It is as if the more we learn the more ignorant we realize we are. As the universe expands so does our knowledge, and our own ignorance along with it. That is my view at the moment. Facts may be factual but nothing can be carved in stone since even stones melt in time.

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Milky Way Explanation

Gazing out from within the Milky Way, our own galaxy's true structure is difficult to discern. But an ambitious survey effort with the Spitzer Space Telescope now offers convincing evidence that we live in a large galaxy distinguished by two main spiral arms (the Scutum-Centaurus and Perseus arms) emerging from the ends of a large central bar. In fact, from a vantage point that viewed our galaxy face-on, astronomers in distant galaxies would likely see the Milky Way as a two-armed barred spiral similar to this artist's illustration. Previous investigations have identified a smaller central barred structure and four spiral arms. Astronomers still place the Sun about a third of the way in from the Milky Way's outer edge, in a minor arm called the Orion Spur.