Monday, 8 April 2013

Carl, Albert & Martin's Note




Some time ago there was a picture taken from the Voyager space craft of Earth. At the time it was nearly 4 billion miles from Earth. Earth appeared as a tiny dot no bigger than the head of a pin.
The late Carl Sagan (1934-1996) upon seeing the picture noted,
“Look again at the dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it is everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father every hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar” every “supreme leader” every saint and every sinner in the history of our species lived there- 
on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam”
Albert Einstein wrote, “Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust. We all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.”
I’ve heard many well educated as will as not so well educated people over the years say there is no God.
I can’t buy into that. The Universe from the expanse of space to the microscopic level is too perfectly in balance for me to believe it happened by chance.
As far as I am concerned there has to be more than just the world we live in. There has to be.
The late Martin Luther King junior said,
“We thank thee for they Church, founded upon thy Word, that challenges us to do more than sing and pray, but go our and work as though the answer to our prayers depended on us and not upon thee.
Then, finally, help us to realize that man was created to shine like the stars and live on through all eternity.” 
Someone has said that “I’d rather go through life believing there is a God, than not believing. For believing cost me nothing. But not believing could have eternal ramifications.”
Think about it.

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