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Caves on Mars?
RockDoctor writes "The BBC is reporting that the photo-surveying of Mars has revealed seven suspected cave entrances in the Arsia Mons volcanic area.
This has been hinted at before — long sinuous channels in the same region have been interpreted as collapsed 'lava tube' caves — but the scale of the suggested entrances (sheer drops of 80 to 130m from the surrounding surface) makes my troglodytic hands twitch for my abseiling gear."
Sorry ... I thought poster meant paragliding ... Go ahead with abseiling ... it'll be easier than on earth.
Yes, I'm left. You have a problem with that?
If God created everything specifically- and we were created specifically and all that- then why create all these 'empty' planets/galaxies?
It seems to me, that the mere existance of other planets disproves intelligent design- or at least calls into question whether we're the only ones - which would call in to question intelligent design by default.
I believe there's a supreme being/beings, but I think we were still created through evolution- what better way to get to 'perfection' (I don't think -we- are perfect by a longshot, but future generations may be closer).
Just the fact that mars seems so much like our planet in so many ways- including water, tells me that if there's a planet that close to habitable that close to us, there's -got- to be other lifeforms out there either on similar 'm class' planets or on totally different atmospheres with totally different biology. After all, there are creatures that live in the deepest parts of the ocean on all kinds of toxic (to us) chemicals.
I'm not slapping creationists in the face, but I do think you can be Christian and believe in God and Jesus or be Muslim and still believe in Allah, etc and believe that we are here by a different means albeit perahps one that [insert deity] started in motion.
The thing that's always bugged me is that the bible was written by humans and not even in english, translated by humans several times, and yet people hang on specific wordings of specific versions. I firmly believe the bible is more of a guideline than an absolute as a result. The stories are supposed to suggest meanings/ideals, not fix behavior into stone based on someones interpretation- we all know how well interpretation works under the law.
Mod parent funny.
Some would ask, how could a perfect God create a universe filled with so much that is evil. They have missed a greater conundrum: why would a perfect God create a universe at all?