(May 2, 2016 at 5:00 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: You do realize don't you that people only became aware of the universe very recently. In ancient times people thought that the Earth was all there was. They thought that the lights that they saw in the night sky were simply tiny lights comparable to meteors they saw streaking through the atmosphere at night. They had no idea what stars really are. They thought that the visible planets they saw moving through the night sky were just tiny moving lights like the stars. They had no idea what they were or where they were located.
Jesus thought that the stars would fall from heaven. Today we know that that is simply impossible. He had no clue what stars are. Be smarter than Jesus.
The name "planet" itself still retains that old meaning:
"Planet (from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ πλανήτης astēr planētēs, or πλάνης ἀστήρ plánēs astēr, meaning "wandering star")"
