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Youngest Planet Discovered
qazsedcft writes "BBC is reporting that Astronomers have discovered what appears to be the youngest planet, being less than 2000 years old. If this proves to be true it could challenge our models of solar system formation."
Errr, I meant younger. Jesus also occasionally switches the meanings of words to their opposites.
Well, perhaps it's Kolob. Jesus needed a new "home" after being on earth for 30 years.
Whether or not there is some sort of god, I'm not supposed to say/god is a word and the argument ends there-Smog
Psh, same thing.
The Book of Abraham describes a hierarchy of heavenly bodies, including the earth, its moon, and the sun, each with different movements and measurements of time, where at the pinnacle, the slowest-revolving body is Kolob, where one Kolob-day corresponds to 1000 earth-years:
Day 2 in God's busy schedule.
Behold the power of the Lord. Not only did he create the world in 6 days, he created all the stars, and not just the stars, but stars and planets in varying states and black holes and even light *in transit* from stars millions of light years away so that when we look up at that starry sky we see them.
All to test our faith.
What other explanation could there be?
....Slashdotters will quit with the 6000-year-old earth comments just as soon as the hordes of Bible thumpers stop trying to convince everyone that that is really true......
But if a planet can be observed to have formed in 2000 years or less, could it then be possible that one 6000 years old could also form? Nobody was around to observe when earth was formed, but here we actually observe a planet recently made. The Bible claims to have the information directly from the One who did the job.
Now we may not want to believe Him, but being around and making the universe and earth happen is not a claim any scientist living today can make. We also have to believe or disbelieve their theories.
The root problem is that as soon as you really believe that there is a God, the question of human accountability to this existing God raises it head.
Mark Twain, disbeliever, supposedly put it this way: "It's not the things in the Bible I cannot or don't want to understand that trouble me, but it is the things I do understand and don't wish obey or admit as truth that bother me".
As soon as a person admits to themselves that there may be or surely God exists, He, as Creator, should have the right to demand a change in their life style in conformity to His, not our rules, and be the ultimate Judge. That is an inescapable, but throughly uncomfortable thought quickly dismissed by many. Only if the grace and forgiveness of God is also factored in, is that distress relieved.
All theory is gray