I've been reading a lot about astronomy and exobiology lately. It's just really interesting to me. I don't really think that there is life elsewhere in the galaxy though. I suppose it is possible, because the subject is not specifically addressed biblically to my knowledge. And God has created angels and a whole host of beings that are not quite understandable. He is rather creative, you know? The universe itself is fascinating. Just it's size alone staggers the mind.

Let me give you an idea. . .

A light-year is actually a measurement of distance, not time. Now if light travels at a the incredible speed of 186,282 miles per second, then the closet star other than our sun (Proxima Centauri) lies at a distance of 4.28 light-years from our solar system. That's approximately 25 trillion miles! And that's the closest! Light itself would have to travel about 100,000 years to go from one end of our galaxy to the other. The most distant known galaxy is the cluster CL1358+62. It's estimated to be some 13 billion light-years away! It really just blows my mind. How could anything be that HUGE?

When I think about all of this I am just put into a state of wonder. That the creator of all that loves me? Crazy. That the God that holds all of that in his hand knows me? Crazy!

Praise God!

- posted by Jonathan@ 3:17 PM