January 19, 2012
Children like to take things apart to see what’s inside. Curious minds want to know what makes things work. Humans have always and probably always will strive to see smaller and smaller building blocks of life as well as larger and larger spans of space.
We have deconstructed biological structures into the smallest of microscopic parts until we could break them down no further and discovered, to the surprise of everyone, that the invisible space itself is intelligent.
Now we are told by Eric Berger reporting in the Science section of last week’s SA Express News: “It’s not your father’s galaxy.” How many planets existed in the 1960’s -- 9 --including the humble Pluto that was “new” in 1930 but today has been downgraded and kicked out of the kingdom.
“On Wednesday astronomers announced there are at least 100 billion planets in our Milky Way Galaxy alone, many of them rocky and Earth-size.” Another astronomer says that these planets are so common that our galaxy must be “swarming with little habitable planets...”
Let’s face it: there is more and ever more to learn about life. Isn’t this the definition of “abundant life” promised in our scriptures, that we would be in for ever-increasing knowledge of life itself, with ever-expanding possibilities for expressing that life and ever-unfolding worlds--demonstrations--of life.
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