RE: historical trajectory

I don't have any problems with being "relegated to the boondocks of the
universe." If God put us there, He must have had a reason to do so and the
fact that we *are* here is sufficient to give the Earth a special status.
It's conceivable that there is life elsewhere in the universe but we might
not recognize it even if we observed it. Would we even be able to define
"life" as it could exist on other planets? Jesus' statement that "in my
house are many mansions" has been suggested by some as possibly referring to
life outside our planet. But, in the absence of any evidence to the
contrary, I think it's safe to assume that we are, indeed, alone.

Chuck Vandergraaf

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From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of Mervin Bitikofer
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 7:32 AM
To: asa@calvin.edu
Subject: historical trajectory

Last night at K-State, Dr. Robert Kirshner - an astrophysicist from Harvard,
gave a delightful presentation of the recent history of cosmology to a lay
audience. At one point he made a comment which spurs this further
reflection for me. He said something to the effect -- science now finds
any propositions perverse or distasteful which would accord special status
to us or our corner of the universe. - a kind of Einstein's equivalency
principle philosophically extended if you will.

What are any of your thoughts on how long this trajectory holds or if it
will ever stop? Do we hold out any well-grounded defiance of this pattern
in spiritual terms? Or is science just delivering some much needed lessons
about anthropocentric arrogance?
Received on Fri Jan 27 00:12:25 2006