Notably, some sources highlight that he fulfilled 27 prophecies in a single day.
It's almost as if the writers of the Jesus story were using the Old Testament as a source.
Probability of Earth and life being how it is
by ballistic 14 Replies latest jw friends
-
peacefulpete
-
joey jojo
There is potentially other life that exists in the universe, or our galaxy, maybe still even in our solar system.
The problem is the vast distance. The recent planet they believe has indicators of biological signatures in its atmosphere is 125 light years away. That means that a signal sent today would take 250 years before we get a reply - if there is intellligent life on that planet that is capable of sending radio signals.
Just for context, travelling at 400 000km/h, it would take almost 200 000 years to reach that planet. Broadly speaking , this is a close planet when you consider the milky way is 100 000 light years across.
For arguments sake, if there is a civilisation exactly like us, with all the exact same technology etc, that has evolved somewhere else in our galaxy, chances are we will never know about it.
However, using the same argument, lets say that the civilisation like ours is 1000 years more advanced than us? If humans dont self-destruct, what technology will we have in 1000 years? Will it be possible to crack all the problems involving space travel distances in that time? What if the civilisation is 10 000 years more advanced? 10 000 years is the blink of an eye in evolution and maybe humans could make breakthroughs in science that seem impossible today, once again - if we dont annihilate ourselves in the meantime.
If life is common in the universe and if there are civilisations that have developed like ours and are thousands of years ahead of us, then there is a chance that aliens are here already.
-
Sea Breeze
@peacefulpete
Surely you are not naive enough to believe that people (orthodox Jews) made up this story and were willing to be ostracized by family, shunned by their community and die horrible deaths for something they knew to be a lie.
How do you know you are not just believeing something as far fetched as 1975, then living in denial of the facts like your dad did? Is it possible that you are more like your dad than you care to admit?
-
JohnR1975
The Earth's moon is unique in its ability to cause total solar eclipses.
The probability of a moon having the right size and orbital characteristics to cause total eclipses is considered low.
Why choose the Moon's eclipses as part of this? Because it is our only moon, and clearly visible to everyone on the planet. If you wanted to design a planetary system and put a "signature" out there for everyone to see (more visible than the pyramids for example), choose the moon.
It’s must be obvious to anyone with clear thinking abilities that there is no option that it was all just chance. A big bang explosion and whoosh the sun moon and earth by chance all just happened to land in the right places.
in an eclipse the moon matches up perfectly to the sun from our point of view here on earth. The sun is said to be 400 times larger than the moon and 400 times the distance away, and we are told this was just an amazing coincidence that they landed there after a chance big bang ?
-
jhine
Ballistic, there is an awful lot more to this fine tuning lark that the things that you mention . Atmospheric pressure for one thing needed to be exactly right.
There is a book called The Improbable Planet written by an astrophysicist called Hugh Ross which describes how Earth got to be called The Goldilocks Planet.
It's very sciency ( technical term ) and much of it went over my head . However well worth a delve into if this interests you as the amount of fine tuning needed is mind blowing .
Jan from Tam