In the city it's hard to see the shape of the Milky Way Galaxy, our interstellar home. I can pick out the North Star and a few others, but the rest are faded by the glare of lights in the night sky.
I was having a conversation today with someone concerning are we alone in the Universe. He's a member of the we-live-we-die-we're-all-that-is-that's-it crowd, which makes absolutely no sense to me.
He doesn't believe in God or a Creator, and thinks that we just exploded ourselves into existence out of nothing and by nobody.
Again, pure nonsense.
We live, we die, and that's it? You gotta be kidding me. What a waste.
In my view anyone wanting proof of a Creator, only has to look down at the ground or up in the sky. The very soil you're walking from? That material had to come from somewhere and was made by somebody.
Same with the Moon, the Sun, and all of the planets and stars that we can see when we look up on a clear night. The material itself is all the proof I need. The big bang was initiated, conceived and gestated by somebody, and then unleashed into the void.
I believe only God can create something where nothing was before.
Now, back to those 100 billion stars. That number is just in our Galaxy, with uncounted numbers of Galaxies out there and more being discovered each year.
I believe this vastness points to the power and majesty of our Creator, and that it exists to glorify his name and as a proof that he is indeed here and in charge.
But if you look at the number of stars and how many are in the Goldilocks Zone, odds are that a certain percentage of them almost have to be habitable. Nothing else makes sense.
We can't be all there is.
If that were true, it would be sad considering a global nuclear exchange could break out, and that would be that.
Do I think the people of Earth could handle the knowledge of us not being alone? Yes, I do. I think we're mature and wise enough to calculate the odds and welcome information about (hopefully) friendly visitors.
For now, I can look up into the night sky and watch the twinkling of the stars and be glad I'm alive.
