We Are Stardust
April 23, 2010 at 5:46 am
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2010 at 5:49 am by Welsh cake.)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/199...080416.htm
After reading this article I'm curious as to why there are any alive who claim to be "knowledgeable" yet simultaneously accept and hold Creationism, a religious belief, in the same regard as scientific fact. They think that life, the Earth and formation of the solar system are all the creation of some supernatural agency they call "god".
It puts everything into perspective when you actually look at reality and consider that everything you are, the atoms, the very matter you're made of, were all formed inside a humongous star that went supernova long ago. We are star matter or the dust from a dead star that suffered a violent end. From its remains a proto-star then formed into Sol (our sun) and the dust around that formed into the planets of the solar system.
If religions were remotely creditable then surely Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and so on, would all be worshipping the stars above that made us?
As an atheist I am now finding honest enquiry about our universe absolutely fascinating, the rewards to reap are like the cosmos itself, vast. What's your opinion on being, like the Sun (Sol), the "offspring" of a giant parent sun?
![[Image: 090729-betelgeuse-02_widec.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i849.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fab58%2Fshelliebelly1961%2F090729-betelgeuse-02_widec.jpg)
Does it make you feel all 'warm' inside? ;P
After reading this article I'm curious as to why there are any alive who claim to be "knowledgeable" yet simultaneously accept and hold Creationism, a religious belief, in the same regard as scientific fact. They think that life, the Earth and formation of the solar system are all the creation of some supernatural agency they call "god".
It puts everything into perspective when you actually look at reality and consider that everything you are, the atoms, the very matter you're made of, were all formed inside a humongous star that went supernova long ago. We are star matter or the dust from a dead star that suffered a violent end. From its remains a proto-star then formed into Sol (our sun) and the dust around that formed into the planets of the solar system.
If religions were remotely creditable then surely Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and so on, would all be worshipping the stars above that made us?
As an atheist I am now finding honest enquiry about our universe absolutely fascinating, the rewards to reap are like the cosmos itself, vast. What's your opinion on being, like the Sun (Sol), the "offspring" of a giant parent sun?
Does it make you feel all 'warm' inside? ;P
