Brand New Atheist » The Universe http://brandnewatheist.com I'm Rob Jones, I Exist and I Can Prove It Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:18:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The End http://brandnewatheist.com/2009/12/26/the-end/ http://brandnewatheist.com/2009/12/26/the-end/#comments Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:18:47 +0000 Rob Jones "Brand New Atheist" http://brandnewatheist.com/?p=393 I plan on making some big changes in 2010 and this website is not part of it. I’ve enjoyed using this site to get things off my chest, hash out some ideas, start controversy, this site has served it’s purpose and will be abandoned for the foreseeable future.

I’ll leave the site up but I don’t plan on tweeting from my BNA account or posting anymore articles. I’ve even gone to the trouble to delete some BNA accounts and disable others. Thanks to all my Twitter followers and anyone who took the time to have a conversation with me. If I get any comments to this article I may respond in 2009 but not 2010.

While this journey was educational it was also stressful and not always enjoyable. We only get this one life and I want to spend as little of it as possible on things that don’t bring happiness to me and my family.

Wish me luck and I’ll see you in the next life (that was a joke) :)

]]> http://brandnewatheist.com/2009/12/26/the-end/feed/ 1 How powerful is your God? http://brandnewatheist.com/2008/04/03/how-powerful-is-your-god/ http://brandnewatheist.com/2008/04/03/how-powerful-is-your-god/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:51:34 +0000 Rob Jones "Brand New Atheist" http://brandnewatheist.com/?p=74 Typical believers view God as something that watches over them, like a parent watching their kid through a window playing in the back yard. Most believers think God has a hand in their daily lives, helping them make the right choices. Almost all believers think God answers prayer, which is why they spend so must time praying. All believers think God made the universe, but they rarely consider the universe outside Earth’s atmosphere.

So what happens when I tell you that the universe is so big you can’t even understand it, you’re not able to comprehend it’s size? Does your mind play tricks on you and try to convince you that God is powerful enough control the universe? Do you make your God as powerful as he needs to be for you to believe in him? Let’s take for instance this image of the Omega Centauri. This is a tiny image through a tiny pinhole of the universe. And it contains hundred of thousands of stars. You can’t actually see the stars with your naked eye, but you can see the cluster of them which is Omega Centauri.

When scientists refer to the universe they use phrases like millions of billions of stars. Millions of Billions, not only can you not convince me of God here on Earth but take into account the Million of Billions of stars, those star’s planets and those planet’s moons and you don’t have a chance. There isn’t anything that made this, their isn’t anything controlling this and the universe will still be here when humans no longer exist.

Here’s the original article with higher quality images of Omega Centauri. Want to be reminded daily of just how small you really are?

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