Consider reading this slowly so it sinks in before responding:
We all live on the Earth, which is a planet in a (now) 8-planet solar system.
The sun resides in the Milky Way galaxy. Our galaxy contains 200,000,000,000 - to - 400,000,000,000 (200 billion - to - 400 billion) stars, of which our sun is only one. (For comparison, there are approximately 6.5 billion people alive on the Earth, of which you are only one.)
Additionally, there are approximately 100,000,000,000 (100 billion) galaxies in the observeable universe. The average galaxy appears to contain between 10,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000,000 (between 10 million and 1 trillion) stars.
What relevance would your faith have to the statistically likely population of a planet that circles one of those stars held in one of those galaxies in our observeable universe? What parts of the message (from your prophet, savior, sacred texts, etc.) would do you believe would matter to those other beings?
2006-09-28
07:58:53
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