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Life Perspective Adjustment: A Recent NASA Image of the Earth and Moon from 6 Million Miles Away
The below image was recently taken of the Earth and moon by Juno, a NASA space probe currently on its way to Jupiter. Seize the dot.
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What Agnosticism Means to Me (and Why I’m Not an Atheist)
I think my agnosticism extends, when it really comes down to it, to keeping an open mind to the possibility that mind precedes matter in some fashion—or even that there might be something recognizably human at the end of the … Continue reading
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Sure, Atheism’s Not a Faith
Confidence atheist PZ Myers this week on how (contra Francis Collins) he reconciles his atheist faith with the curious life-friendly values of the cosmological constants: What about chance? There’s nothing impossible about the fact that our universe was the product … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Big Bang, cosmological constants, cosmology, faith, life, PZ Myers, religion, universe
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What’s It All About? See Here?
If it were evening, and you were sitting beneath a full moon with a Zen priest, and you asked him what the universe’s ultimate meaning is, he might simply point you to the moon. But what if you were sitting on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, earth, existentialism, meditation, moon, philosophy, psychology, Reinhold Niebuhr, science, universe, yoga, Zen
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You Are Here
NASA produced “universe extension timeline”: This is the universe we live in. And there might be others. See here and here.
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Tagged astronomy, Big Bang, creation, evolution, Genesis, multiverse, NASA, physics, space, time, universe
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Looking Back More Than 10 Billion Years in Time: NASA’s “Deepest Ever” Galaxy Photo Just Released
Long before there were dinosaurs, and before there was our Earth, and before our own star was even born, these galaxies were. The photo below is the closest we’re ever likely to come to time travel. According to the AP, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, Big Bang, evolution, hubble, science, science fiction, space, stanley kubrick, universe
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In Our Milky Way Galaxy Alone: 100 Billion Earth-Like Planets and Perhaps Thousands of Civilizations
So the BBC reports today. Puts life in perspective, doesn’t it? Money quote: Dr Boss has estimated that each Sun-like star has on average one “Earth-like” planet. This simple calculation means there would be huge numbers capable of supporting life. … Continue reading
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Tagged astronomy, civilization, extraterrestrials, life, milky way galaxy, philosophy, psychology, religion, science, UFOs, universe
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Our Universe Isn’t All There Is? A New Discovery Gives the Multiverse Hypothesis a Boost
In National Geographic this week: On the outskirts of creation, unknown, unseen “structures” are tugging on our universe like cosmic magnets, a controversial new study says. Everything in the known universe is said to be racing toward the massive clumps … Continue reading
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“Miracle, Mystery, and Authority”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella
A brown robed friar among mission flowers. A child spins before him. Sun-gleaming, dizzying the motion. Will the heavens never stop in their orbits and explosions?
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Tagged poem, poetry, religion, revolutions, robed friar, Santi Tafarella, sun, universe, women, wonder
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