Posted on 03/18/2014 7:36:49 AM PDT by C19fan
Did they mention, “billions and billions...”?
Well, as I think you were trying to point out, the comment was not about “intelligent” life, but I don’t think that makes any difference.
Christ died for OUR sins. Not the sins of Klingons or Vulcans or whatever is out there. Perhaps God created intelligent life in a form that does not commit sins. The possibilities are limitless...as is God.
Yes, Neal posed thoughtfully by a volcanic pool to ruminate how a single cell microbe (life) could have emerged from the heat. Of course, how that microbe became “life” with a billion atoms of CODED DNA ... and went from there over 3 billion years of natural selection (and 5 mass extinctions) to the top of the “tree of life”
well, the FACTS are in, so no worries, Nat Geo will just continue to make pretty cartoons about “the science of what probably happened”
So far...
“A total, complete and utter failure, a disgrace.”
Agree totally, a ham handed secular preach fest. We made it about 20 minutes too. I was looking forward to the reboot. When it started with that Galaxy class liar Obummer I figured we may be in for a disappointment and hoo boy was it ever.
the NatGeo Cosmos special last night took a trip to Titans seas of Methane and Ethane and made the statement that Titan has “more oil and gas” than all the known deposits on earth
Just sayin’ what they told my kid last night
I hope the bent of cosmos isn’t too shocking to anyone considering the show that led into it featured a story line where God was causing the new england patriots to lose football games and that God was upset that no one knew they were supposed to bring their own towels to heaven.
Keep lookin’. My money’s on “won’t”. And no fair claiming that water = life. :)
No, sadly, no bill-yuns and bill-yuns, though considering the intro, maybe it shudda bin trill-yuns and trill-yuns.
I made my point clear. This is a straw man retort. The post you were responding to referenced the Catholic Church. You referenced the Catholic Church in your next sentence. However, in the sentence in question, you broadened your credit to the Christian Church. Don't get me wrong, the Catholic Church is indeed the Christian Church, as it is universal. That isn't the same thing in a discussion of denominations, though.
I'm nitpicking on this because this is how the Church has been marginalized through the centuries. Credit has been taken by those who are not of Her communion and all evils are heaped at Her feet. I'd simply like Her to receive the credit due Her.
My thoughts exactly.
I think part of the problem is that they had no audience, or the wrong audience in mind. Carl Sagan was going for the PBS wine and cheese crowd. He never insulted the viewers’ intelligence, his presumptions were off-handed and not belabored. He assumed his audience shared his assumptions, or , if not, was beyond redemption.
I think the current production is trying to reach the unreachable, the unwashed rabble, who do not have the patience or acumen to sit through a more straightforward presentation. This universe is interesting enough for those with a sense of curiosity and the persistence and willingness to learn. That was not the audience they were appealing to.
I saw the episode Sunday, didn’t find it offensive as some here have claimed, but I did find it just to be not a very good show. I was left very very very far from impressed, I think FOX learned their golden boy should stick to offensive humor because he sure can’t produce an engaging show on science.
No argument there. Water = potential for life.
My money is on, almost a certainty. My God isn’t limited.
Your God seems limited to a life form that needs water.
Why should they suffer for Adam’s Sin?
Would Christ have to visit each planet and die for them as well?
Um, I think that we can never know all of God’s plan. He reveals to us what we need to know. His works on other planets we cannot begin to fathom, and the other beings he creates could be impossible for us to relate to.
I cannot know what it’s like to be a cherubim or a seraphim, so I have no idea whether they had to be saved or visited by Christ. The Bible doesn’t give us their complete backstory, most likely because it is beyond our capacity at the moment.
Thanks, cipplecreek (I've been to Cripplecreek, too)
I found this link critiquing Cosmos - http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/historians-of-science-critique-new-cosmos-series/
But I will still watch it as I believe Science and Christianity are not incompatible
I’m an amateur astronomer too. I posted on another thread that the original Cosmos made me fall in love with astronomy, I begged my parents for a telescope. Then a trip to Hayden planetarium. I read all I could, and also fell in love with the golden age of ScienceFiction,
All because of a TV show. I can’t see this one inspiring kids like that. There was something about Carl Sagan that seems to be missing with Mr. Tyson.
You are an over sensitive kook. You are the type who wake up each morning just looking for something to be ticked off about. I have no time for your type.
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