On God Part IX- How many Worlds Did God Create?

Happy New Year! Unanswerable questions are going to be really in style in 2020 so let’s get a jump on things by talking about what lies beyond our home planet. I’m small-child-at-Disney-world levels of excited about Space. Space is both huge and great. It’s so vast that if Earth was the size of a grain of sand Space would still be really big. I’m not very good with words. Let’s draw some pictures.

People do this a lot with Space.

 

 

I think that does a pretty good job of helping you visualize how big other things in the universe are compared to Earth, which I feel like is important when thinking about space.

Actually, let’s look at a professional one of these from Wikipedia.

There. That could have saved me two hours. Really look at how small Earth is compared to Jupiter and then think about how small Jupiter is compared to Betelgeuse then look at the rest of pictures. It’s all very impressive.

Earth itself is not very impressive.

All those big things are just individual planets and stars. Now think about a galaxy. A galaxy is like twenty stars, or a billion.

This picture has over 15,000 galaxies in it.

It’s a real picture taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. I didn’t count them. Here’s the website if you want to fact check me.

Earth is just one tiny planet in a regular galaxy that amounts to just a spec. The Milky Way is not actually in this picture, but you get the idea.

But that’s not why we’re here. We’re here to talk about the potential for LIFE in more than one of these places and why God would choose to put life on such an unimpressive planet. The first part of the article was just to get your imaginative juices flowing. Now the real article can start. Don’t worry, it’s only like 1061 words total.

There either is or is not life outside of Earth. Both options are equally terrifying.

Terrifying.

Equally terrifying.

So how does God play into the whole thing?

Let’s assume for a minute that God totally is real and the Bible is more or less true. What’s going on with the other 99.9999% of space?

Is God just hanging out, hovering around Earth waiting for people to sin?

He’s the God of this picture, which is a picture of over 15,000 galaxies, which is only a tiny slice of the universe…

…but he spends most of his time worrying about whether certain monkeys on one tiny planet in a nondescript galaxy are picking their collective noses.

Does he ever have to leave us to go look at some of his other creations? Maybe he left several thousand years ago and is really regretting the whole speed of light thing since the next closest inhabitable* world he created is a couple of galaxies over.

Fun Fact: Both inhabitable and habitable mean the same thing, that life can exist. Uninhabitable is where life cannot exist. We had a rousing family discussion on the correct inhabitable/habitable word but then we remembered Google exists.

Let’s back up.

At some point, God had made zero worlds. Then, he made one. It probably looked like this…

Actually, that’s not very realistic. He probably had a workbench.

I think we’re all in agreement here.

It took him six days from start to finish, so he rested on the seventh day, which was a unit of time that only existed on the planet he’d just created.

So, was that it? Did God just have one major creative itch he just HAD to scratch so he rushed through the whole thing in six days and then went right back to not creating stuff? Maybe creating it over six days was really stretching it out, especially when you can speak things into existence. But maybe six days seems like not that much time to make the world.

If he was only going to do one art project why rush through it in six days? It seems like it would make more sense to watch Earth take shape naturally, say, over billions of years.

If he did make multiple worlds did he have a different way of sorting out the wheat from the chaff or did Jesus have to die for the sins of all those worlds too?

If Jesus only had to die in our world, but not all the other worlds, it makes you wonder why we’re the special one that got to kill Jesus. Maybe we were the first and then after that whole ordeal, he realized he could just forgive people without the bloodshed.

I think probably the one sacrifice was sufficient. But then, it makes you wonder how people from other worlds believed in Jesus without even getting the semi-historical crucifixion event happening on their planet.

Did God tell them about the really impressive sacrifice Jesus made on Earth? The plot thickens.

Either way, it’s weird. Either God just did the one world, or he did a bunch. If he did just the one, why make it so unimpressive compared to a lot of the other nouns floating around the universe? Not only are we not the center of our galaxy, but our galaxy is also just sitting in a random corner. Maybe God is more of an abstract artist than we give him credit for.

Here’s a picture of where the Milky Way sits in our local group of galaxies.

The Milky Way galaxy is found in a small group of galaxies (known as the Local Group) towards the edge of a relatively small supercluster which we call the Local Supercluster –full article

We aren’t very impressive.

If he really did only make the one world then why not interact with it more? I kind of feel like we were a present one year that Mrs. God just kind of grew tired with.

So anyway. That’s how the dinosaurs died and that’s why Mrs. God doesn’t appear in the Bible.

Next: On God Part X- What if Fundamentalist Christians are Right?!

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