There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.
Dark Clouds in Aquila: Part of a dark expanse that splits the crowded plane of our Milky Way galaxy, the Aquila Rift arcs through the northern hemisphere's summer skies near bright star Altair and the Summer Triangle. In silhouette against the Milky Way's faint starlight, its dusty molecular clouds likely contain raw material to form hundreds of thousands of stars and astronomers eagerly search the clouds for telltale signs of star birth. This telescopic close-up looks toward the region at a fragmented Aquila dark cloud complex identified as LDN 673, stretching across a field of view slightly wider than the full moon. In the scene, visible indications of energetic outflows associated with young stars include the small red tinted nebulosity RNO 109 at top left and Herbig-Haro object HH32 above and right of center. The dark clouds in Aquila are estimated to be some 600 light-years away. At that distance, this field of view spans about 7 light-years.
Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, University of Arizona
Dark Clouds in Aquila: Part of a dark expanse that splits the crowded plane of our Milky Way galaxy, the Aquila Rift arcs through the northern hemisphere's summer skies near bright star Altair and the Summer Triangle. In silhouette against the Milky Way's faint starlight, its dusty molecular clouds likely contain raw material to form hundreds of thousands of stars and astronomers eagerly search the clouds for telltale signs of star birth. This telescopic close-up looks toward the region at a fragmented Aquila dark cloud complex identified as LDN 673, stretching across a field of view slightly wider than the full moon. In the scene, visible indications of energetic outflows associated with young stars include the small red tinted nebulosity RNO 109 at top left and Herbig-Haro object HH32 above and right of center. The dark clouds in Aquila are estimated to be some 600 light-years away. At that distance, this field of view spans about 7 light-years.
Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, University of Arizona
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"When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides."Dr Wayne Dyer
We'll let you teach creationism in our schools. When you let us teach evolution in your churches.
Atheism Isn't Scary -- Well, it may ne scary at first (it really is), but when you think about it, that means that all of this; our planet, our moon, our stars and the trillions of lifeforms crawling everywhere, are all brilliantly interconnected. Our home is the heroic survivor of a collision from the black, as evidenced by the Moon. Our star is a nuclear furnace, powering our weather, our plants, and ultimately our very bodies. We're brothers and sister to the other apes, cousins of the cats and dogs, distant relatives of the spiders and crocodiles, and all children of exploding stars, showering us with the ingredients for life.
We aren't just beings placed here in a tailor-made Universe. We are the Universe, brought alive through chance and power, of conflict and an endless string of love: our only purpose to huddle together on a sea-soaked rock hurtling through time and space as we live our lives and learn about ourselves and our origins.
That to me, is so much more beatiful than any god could ever make it. There's nothing that could compare. A godless Universe isn't scary. It's amazing.
Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.
What can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
"It's my view that the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful."
- Stephen Hawking
"Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars are been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numerous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms - up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested - probably once belonged to Shakespeare.
A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name.
So we are all reincarnations - though short-lived ones. When we die our atoms will disassemble and move off to find new uses elsewhere - as part of a leaf or other human being or drop of dew.
- Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
Life is More Beautiful Without a God
We are all part of this beautiful & amazing Universe - made up of ancient stars and cosmic dust.
- Kat Blackheart
What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
Milky Way
We live on a hunk of rock and metal than circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billions other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes. That is a perspective on human life and out culture that is well worth pondering.
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