Chapter 2/How Did Our Universe Get Here?-The Controversy

ASTRONAUTS thrill to photograph the earth as it looms large through the window of a spacecraft.  "That's the best part of flying in space," said one.  But our earth seems very small when compared with the solar system.  The sun could hold a million earths inside, with room to spare!  However, could such facts about the universe have any bearing on your life and its meaning?

Note: I just believe that we do not belong up there in space. That is Jehovah God's territory and we are invading it. If we were meant to be up there, he would have put us there to begin with. 

Let us take a brief mental trip into space to see our earth and sun in perspective.  Our sun is just one of an awesome number of stars in spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy, which itself is just a tiny part of the universe.  With the naked eye, it is possible to see a few smudges of light that actually are other galaxies, such as the beautiful and larger Andromeda.  The Milky Way, Andromeda and some 20 other galaxies are bound gravitationally into a cluster, all of these being only a small neighborhood in a vast super cluster.  The universe contains countless super clusters, and the picture does not end there. 

The clusters are not evenly distributed in space. On a grand scale, they look like thin sheets and filaments around vast bubble like voids.  Some features are so long and wide that they resemble great walls.   This may surprise many who think that our universe  created itself in a chance cosmic explosion.  "The more clearly we can see the universe in all its glorious detail," concludes a senior writer for Scientific American, "the more difficult it will be for us to explain with simple theory how it came to be that way."

Next time:  How Did Our Universe Get Here?-The Controversy

From the book Is There a Creator That Cares About You?