NASA's Kepler Discovers 11 Systems Hosting 26 Planets 89
An anonymous reader writes "NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets. These discoveries nearly double the number of verified planets and triple the number of stars known to have more than one planet that transits, or passes in front of, the star. Such systems will help astronomers better understand how planets form."
Not as backward.... (Score:4, Insightful)
The 99% of you that are backward give the rest of you a bad name.
If your thinking cap is not broken, run this by it:
God is benevolent, all knowing, doesn't make mistakes, and so on. Humans are evil, largely stupid, screw everything up, and so on. Therefore, it makes perfect sense to put one's faith in God, and no sense at all to put one's faith in other men.
HOWEVER....
How do you actually go about putting your faith in God, without putting your faith in other men? If your pastor tells you what God wants you to do, and you believe him, then you are actually putting your faith in your pastor, not God. Maybe when God comes down from the sky and tells you what he wants you to do, maybe THEN you can really put your faith in God. But so long as you are hearing it from another human (be it a pastor, or a mystic nut, or a book written by either), then you are actually just putting your faith in men.
It turns out that all of Christianity is built on faith in other men. The Bible is a book, written printed and distributed by humans. The notion of "divine inspiration" is perpetuated by men. Did God tell you, himself, that He inspired the Bible, or did some other human tell you? Did God tell you, himself, that Jesus was his son, or did another human tell you?
Use your thinking cap and you will see: all religious teachings come from humans. And humans, as we already established, are unworthy of faith.
If you really want to put your faith in God, you are going to have to make a leap. You will have to reject every human idea about God. Every one. All that is left is the simple living of your life to the best of your ability...figuring things out as you go along...like the rest of us do. It is really scary living without absolute moral justification for your actions, or the comfort of knowing that you are doing exactly what God wants you to do. But the fact is...you have always lived this way, you have just been deluded (by other men) into falsely believing otherwise.
trashing Christians is your only comment on this? (Score:5, Insightful)
The Kepler mission makes this very interesting scientific find and the only thing you people can do is trash Christians? That is your response to FINDING 11 PLANETARY SYSTEMS IN OUR GALAXY, that Christians are lolstupid?
Re:Depends on the Christian (Score:2, Insightful)
No. All Christians (no matter how fundamental you are) are fucking idiots. Worshiping invisible men and voices in your head actually makes you crazy as well.
Religion is a mental illness. You are sick in the head. Now that you know whats wrong with you, the next step would be trying to fix it.
Have fun with your insane rationalizations about how you are not an idiot and not crazy!
Re:trashing Christians is your only comment on thi (Score:5, Insightful)
this is one of the reasons slashdot doesn't garner the traffic it used to. People don't care if you're pissed off at christians, in fact they find the incessant complaining quite obnoxious.
Re:Depends on the Christian (Score:5, Insightful)