I Love You Anyway
Bob Wickizer
Exodus 3:1-15
I want to share with you a scientist's view of the awful precariousness of life on planet earth. Trillions of miles away from us, things happen for which we have no control. Jesus mentioned a construction tower near the Siloam pool that collapsed killing a few innocent Jerusalemites. He also mentioned a gruesome practice by Pilate in a recent slaughter of Galilean pilgrims visiting Jerusalem. These are definitely bad things happening to innocent people. But if you look out beyond our planetary limits you will find even more troubling possibilities.
When a large star burns out all of its helium fuel, it begins to collapse under its own gravity. The inrushing matter heats and ignites as more matter is converted into energy. The output of one large star doing this will exceed the entire energy output of our sun over its 15 billion year lifespan. As the matter accretes into this star sucking in the galaxy around it, the star emits gamma rays looking like a doughnut with flashlights shining in opposite directions out the hole. The only problem with this image is that the gamma ray burst consists of intense high energy X-rays that retain their pencil thin collimation shining across the entire universe. One such outburst in our own galaxy would incinerate every living thing on this planet and boil the oceans in a matter of days. The sinners and the righteous would perish together. Life is indeed short.
Or consider a simple mile wide asteroid. When they hit the earth they are moving between 20-50 miles per SECOND. There are hundreds of them way out beyond the orbit of Pluto. We have tracked many of them but not all. Their orbits are incredibly hard to track and predict because they are influenced by the cloud of smaller objects orbiting near them. One such asteroid hit the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico 65 million years ago. The 1,000 foot high tidal waves traveling just below the speed of sound made it as far inland ...
Bob Wickizer
Exodus 3:1-15
I want to share with you a scientist's view of the awful precariousness of life on planet earth. Trillions of miles away from us, things happen for which we have no control. Jesus mentioned a construction tower near the Siloam pool that collapsed killing a few innocent Jerusalemites. He also mentioned a gruesome practice by Pilate in a recent slaughter of Galilean pilgrims visiting Jerusalem. These are definitely bad things happening to innocent people. But if you look out beyond our planetary limits you will find even more troubling possibilities.
When a large star burns out all of its helium fuel, it begins to collapse under its own gravity. The inrushing matter heats and ignites as more matter is converted into energy. The output of one large star doing this will exceed the entire energy output of our sun over its 15 billion year lifespan. As the matter accretes into this star sucking in the galaxy around it, the star emits gamma rays looking like a doughnut with flashlights shining in opposite directions out the hole. The only problem with this image is that the gamma ray burst consists of intense high energy X-rays that retain their pencil thin collimation shining across the entire universe. One such outburst in our own galaxy would incinerate every living thing on this planet and boil the oceans in a matter of days. The sinners and the righteous would perish together. Life is indeed short.
Or consider a simple mile wide asteroid. When they hit the earth they are moving between 20-50 miles per SECOND. There are hundreds of them way out beyond the orbit of Pluto. We have tracked many of them but not all. Their orbits are incredibly hard to track and predict because they are influenced by the cloud of smaller objects orbiting near them. One such asteroid hit the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico 65 million years ago. The 1,000 foot high tidal waves traveling just below the speed of sound made it as far inland ...
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