Now just sit back a minute and look at the universe and think about this, truly think about this. First, it may help to set the mindset for time and scale. Think about how BIG 100 MILLION dollars or 100 MILLION of any object for that matter, is. This entry will be referring to hundreds of BILLIONS and TRILLIONS.
It has taken a long approximately 5000 years to get from the first written language to today.
The universe is mind blowingly old and vast.
- *The universe began 13.7 BILLION years ago. (wilderdom.com)
- *About 25% of the universe consists of "dark matter", and about 70% consists of "dark energy", leaving only about 5% of the universe visible to us. (per sentex.net)
- *Earth's solar system was formed about 5 BILLION years ago. (per wilderdom.com )
The basic numbers are unfathomable.
- *The Sun is only one of the more than 200 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy. (per factmonster.com)
- *The Milky Way Galaxy is one of 80 billion of galaxies in the universe. (factmonster.com)
- *A "light year" is a measure of distance, not time. It is approx. 6 trillion miles. (per sentex.net)
- *The distance between one arm of the Milky Way galaxy spiral and another is approx. 6,500 light-years. (per crystalinks.com)
- *If a beam of light were to be shot around the Milky Way, it would take almost 250,000 years to complete its journey. (per crystalinks.com)
The incredible speeds that everything is moving at are unreal. Think about the energy created by these masses moving this fast, and then colliding, unimaginable.
- *The Earth is rotating on its axis at a rate of 460 metres per second at the equator, and is orbiting the sun at a rate of about 30 kilometres per second.
- *The Sun is orbiting the center of the Milky Way at a rate of about 220 kilometres per second.
- *The Milky Way is moving at a speed of about 1000 kilometres per second towards a region of space 150 million light years away called the Great Attractor.
So basically, of ALL that exists in the universe: all the dark matter, galaxies, every single atom, we currently understand/know about what, 1% of it, thats being generous.
So KNOWING how much that we DO NOT know, how does any religion that claims to understand/explain etc... human origin stay alive ?
