Not exact matches
Elon Musk's far - fetched plan not only to get humans to Mars, but to inhabit it, has evidently driven interest in the Red Planet: A team of NASA scientists will talk
about the challenges of
living on
Earth's neighbor, while Lockheed Martin and NASA will combine to talk
about the interplanetary travel systems that will take us there.
In an interview in the April 2017 issue of Vanity Fair, Musk shared that Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — a book
about aliens destroying
earth, creating supersonic highways and building a supercomputer that knows all of
life's mysteries — was a «turning point» for him.
The Voyagers also carried with them a golden record of sounds, images, and other information
about life on
Earth — a basic human catalog that aliens might one day discover and decode.
An eight - episode series
about the world of shipping containers and global trade may seem like a niche subject, but it doesn't take long for host Alexis Madrigal to convince listeners why the development of this worldwide network has shaped every aspect of
life on
Earth.
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about spreading
Earth microbes shouldn't slow search for
life on Mars Secret weapon for space travelers: A steady diet of TV?
Since 1,700 top scientists issued a dramatic warning 25 years ago
about humanity pushing the
Earth beyond its capacity to sustain
life as we know it, we've managed to stabilize one of the things that was worrying them: the depletion of the ozone layer.
Scientists hope that learning more
about Jupiter's evolution will illuminate how
Earth — and possibly other planets — were supplied with the ingredients for
life.
If successful, scientists could determine if Alpha Centauri, a star system
about 25 trillion miles away, contains an
Earth - like planet capable of sustaining
life.
What's more, the maps hint that shallow pools existed between
about 3.5 billion and 3 billion years ago; in an older yet similar blink of a geologic eye,
life on
Earth may have appeared.
The history of government welfare programs is overwhelmingly biased towards expansion; hence, President Reagan's quote
about a government program being the closest thing to eternal
life we will see on
earth.
I do think it's prudent to be pessimistic in other areas of
life perhaps
about earth quake in CA, or whatever history recycles because this helps me prepare.
What
about all the billions of people who
lived on the
Earth in places like Africa and China?
At 62, I have already
lived most of my
life and I don't quite care
about heaven or Hell but I do care
about the people with whom I share the
earth, my fellow pilgrims, so yes, I would still stick with the Jesus thing as it helps me to remember to be humble, charitable and mindful in my daily walk so that I can contribute positively to the existence of others.
It is like saying there is not smoke with out fire, like sighting a droppings and trail of foot prints you would realize that a camel and passenger passed the desert then the seeing of the greatness of the mountains and passages through them, the seas great waves the skies it helps to realize the existence of super power «GOD» above all... any way it is like the verses written in the Quran «GOD «Allah speaking
about how he had created
earth to man by the mountains, seas and rain from skies which brings
life to
earth..
At my age and yours we require not to think
about the future by studying improving job skill, but rather maybe should look forward to Paradise and the 72 Horries... after all
life from 90's up to date was the worse for all mankind and the mideast specially which became as Hell on
Earth and no longer fun to
live it... so maybe after
life would be better fun...
I think early Christians invented that as a scary - sounding disclaimer because they were always talking
about how utopian heaven is and how much
life on
earth sucks, so they didn't want anyone getting any ideas.
I looked at the website you listed — such tortured rationalizations — especially the bits
about people having
lived on
earth before, but not made flesh — that was a good one.
Kerry, people who fervently
live their faith, are the people who are asked
about eternity and how (even then), things can change for them so that they leave
earth knowing that they were redeemed.
To me such a God exists because of the purpose I believe for us being her on this
earth to
live is to test us in following the teachings and that mastering those teachings brings
about a state of happinessand greator personal development.
So what is so more hilarious
about God being this alien
life bringer as opposed to just saying that
life here on
Earth began elsewhere out there?
Regarding Ryan's ruminations on S.M. Hutchens» review of E.O. Wilson's The Creation: An Appeal to Save
Life on
Earth (warning: I've read neither the book nor the review, just Ryan's post
about them), I think Ryan has it right in concluding that in Wilson's account of Christianity «nature has become only a vehicle for supernature.»
Which is still
about 5,833 times longer than creationists think
life on
Earth has been around for.
You are so prepared to believe all of this without any physical proof and yet you are happy to discount a physical, observable, analyzable fossil record that shows a consistent and worldwide evolution of
life on
Earth dating back to
about 3,500,000,000 years ago.
God created Adam from a handful of dirt and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge and eternal
life; a global flood, that required a pair of each organism on
earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who
lived hundreds of years; a man who was swallowed by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower god was afraid might reach heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered
about the town; belief in a circular, flat
earth.
Salvation comes by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone ----- Except if God placed you in a region on
earth where christianity doesn't exist, then you've never heard of Christ, and will likely go your entire
life without learning the first thing
about him.
At one time he spoke
about the vision of Maujer Street» a vision of a
life of genuine community between people in the midst of a great city; more recently he has spoken of the Kingdom of God, the hope for a future where God's rule would more fully permeate the
lives and institutions of men on this
earth.
And what
about the entire ecological system of things, that works in harmony with us as humans for
life to exist, from our atmosphere at 78 % nitrogen, 21 % oxygen down to the magnetosphere that comes from within the core of the
earth and protects us from the sun's damaging electrically charged particles?
Well, if we take your statment, «All we know so far
about life in the universe is here on
Earth so it's safe to at least theorize that alien
life forms have a very good chance of being bipedal and humanoid.»
If one is not prejudiced either by social beliefs or by scientific training into the conviction that
life originated spontaneously on the
Earth, this simple calculation (of the 2,000 proteins coming
about chance) wipes the idea entirely out of court.»
We talked
about the big bang theory in which
life started on
earth.
However, in what is probably the oldest book of the Bible, Job,
living in an ancient culture that knew nothing
about space or planets, asserted that God hung the
earth on nothing (1500 B.C.) or, in other words, the
earth free floats in space.
How did all these necessary «systems» come
about so as to make not just human
life possible, but all the biodiversity of
life that is in every «nook and cranny» of the
earth?
About fifty million years ago, a brief moment in the long history of
life on
earth, geological evidence indicates, CO2 levels were several thousand ppm, much higher than now.
Life's
about pulling skin on Jesus on
earth — and
about pulling out all the stops against the powers of the air.
The consensus on the evolution of primitive
life is that simple
life forms (prokaryotes, organisms whose cells lack a distinct nucleus) inhabited the
Earth about 3 - 4 billion years ago, eukaryotic cells (those with a nucleus which contains the genetic material) emerging 2 - 3 billion years ago.
Moreover, he cared
about persons in their total bodily - spiritual unity, and with their
life on
earth as well as in heaven.
Resurrection does not square with anything else we know
about physical human
life on
earth.
Then recently the scientific community finally concluded it is virtually impossible that the
life sustaining nature of our universe and
earth could have come
about by chance.
a message
about the here and now, and how to
live life as members of God's Kingdom on
earth.
Usually, even a non-Christian knows something
about the
earth, the heavens, and other elements of the world... Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics... How are they going to believe these books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal
life, and the kingdom of heaven?
While I no longer believe the
earth is just 6,000 years old, I still
live in the tension of unanswered questions
about the universe, and death, and brains, and Neanderthals, and whatever Neil deGrasse Tyson's got to say on public television
about the
earth getting burned up by the sun or our species going extinct after an asteroid hits.
Since the gospel is
about all of
life, and since the gospel invites us to
live as though the new heavens and new
earth were already here, then the gospel also invites us to
live as if we never left the Garden of Eden.
Why do Christians keep talking
about how worthless
life on
earth is?
You idiots post
about how there was first hand accounts from people who
lived during the time Jesus walked the
earth, and not one of them bothered to sculpt or draw an image of Jesus?
It's funny you liken us to fruit flies and yet in the paragraph above you're talking
about how god wants our emotion of love, he can hear our prayers he is interested in every individual
life of close to 7 billion people on
earth.
What I love
about Luther, besides his rather curmudgeonly and down to
earth personality, is his emphasis on forgiveness rather than perfection in
life between now and our complete restoration in the fullness of Eternity.
That's what
life is all
about, the reason and purpose of our time here on
earth, my friends.
So if one person is thinking only
about the parts of the gospel that tell a person how to go to heaven when they die or receive eternal
life (faith alone in Christ alone), while another person is thinking
about the parts of the gospel which tell followers of Jesus how to
live on this
earth (discipleship, obedience, faithful
living), but both persons keep using the term «gospel,» the argument quickly becomes quite messy.
It not only contains truths
about how a person can go to heaven when they die, but also
about how a follower of Jesus can
live here on
earth.
@Observer: Why do Christians keep talking
about how worthless
life on
earth is?