Why did god creat hundreds of billions of galaxies when one was more than enough?

Question

Create galaxies

No, I admit I did not get the satire in Kent's question. The minute I read galaxies are 6,000 LY distant (instead of millions of LY) I rejected it out of hand. If it was a satirical answer, I take back the thumbs down.

Not sure anyone answering this question will bother with this added detail, but the thrust of my question is, if, as explained in historic religious text, god made the heavens and the stars in it simply "to delight our eyes," why bother with galaxies you can't even see, which would include all billions of the except for three, the Andromeda, and the Large and Small Magellanic "clouds" in the southern hemisphere. It seems very inefficient. Of course, in my opinion, the answer is quite obvious. There is no god. So far, there has been no good explanation to the contrary. I'm all ears though, if you can enlighten me in this regard.

Answer 1

they don't exist.

galaxies are more than 6,000 light-years away, thus the light we see from them would have had to have originated before Creation. Impossible!

It's all lies! Decption!

Galaxies are the work of Stan!
... you know, the all-purpose scapegoat guy. Satan. Stan. what-EVER.

Answer 2

--How can anyone including the scientists who know very little about the universe think they can judge what is enough just on a scientific basis?
--The laws of God's astronomy are enourmous and the symbiosis of each galaxy to each other & are outstandingly important!
--ARE YOU aware of any of them?
--Most scientists know very little of their workings, but do know they do co-operate with each other!

--Scientists such as Isaac Newton, Galilleo , Einstein, Van Braun etc. EXPRESS awe rather than question his doings! If in fact you are doing that, I would hope you are not!
--Even on a non-scientific basis, who are any of us to question what God might enjoy doing or not doing?

--The celestial bodies do say alot as to God's majesty

(Psalm 19:1-3) “19 The heavens are declaring the glory of God; And of the work of his hands the expanse is telling.  2 One day after another day causes speech to bubble forth, And one night after another night shows forth knowledge.  3 There is no speech, and there are no words; No voice on their part is being heard.”

--In this series of proverbs note how he enjoyed his creating the earth and mankind:

(Proverbs 8:22-31) “22 “Jehovah himself produced me as the beginning of his way, the earliest of his achievements of long ago. 23 From time indefinite I was installed, from the start, from times earlier than the earth. 24 When there were no watery deeps I was brought forth as with labor pains, when there were no springs heavily charged with water. 25 Before the mountains themselves had been settled down, ahead of the hills, I was brought forth as with labor pains, 26 when as yet he had not made the earth and the open spaces and the first part of the dust masses of the productive land. 27 When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he decreed a circle upon the face of the watery deep, 28 when he made firm the cloud masses above, when he caused the fountains of the watery deep to be strong, 29 when he set for the sea his decree that the waters themselves should not pass beyond his order, when he decreed the foundations of the earth, 30 then I came to be beside him as a master worker, and I came to be the one he was specially fond of day by day, I being glad before him all the time, 31 being glad at the productive land of his earth, and the things I was fond of were with the sons of men.”

Answer 3

You really think so? One was more than enough? We don't know diddly **** about the other galaxies & what "life" may be there, or how we're interconnected. Did anyone get the satire in kent-sha's answer???

Answer 4

What if "God" grow to be the call - or perhaps element of the call - of a few colony deliver or something that crashed right here long in the past???? Maye the call of the captain, or something..... (Hmmm - yeah - i'm wondering alongside the lines of that previous Twilight Zone episode....)

Answer 5

To confuse the wise with the foolishness of this world.

Answer 6

I'm not even sure why he created ONE galaxie, much less billions. But I don't think we can say that one was enough unless we know what his reason was. If he reason was to create humans, then yes, one was enough. But he may have had other reasons to create other galaxies that we just don't know about. In that case, we can't say that one was enough.

Answer 7

The creation machine got stuck on the "cosmos" setting, and kept churning out way more than necessary.

Answer 8

space and planets were created for God's glory.

when we see the vast number of stars, then read that scientists have discovered thousands upon thousands of galaxies, each containing millions of stars, we should be stand in reverent fear of a God so immense to make all that and call it the work of his fingers

Answer 9

Ambience.

Answer 10

More than enough for what? How do you know what is enough when you dont know the whole purpose of the universe to begin with.