Comments on: Reading about black holes might make you feel small and insignificant http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/01/11/reading-about-black-holes-might-make-you-feel-small-and-insignificant/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:11:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Erich Vieth http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/01/11/reading-about-black-holes-might-make-you-feel-small-and-insignificant/#comment-15671 Erich Vieth Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:03:33 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2022#comment-15671 Dan - here’s another post that relates to the topic of the vastness of the universe. It is a post about Carl Sagan, who argued that the God portrayed by traditional religions “is too small. It is a God of a tiny world and not a God of a galaxy, much less of a universe.” http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1092 Dan - here’s another post that relates to the topic of the vastness of the universe. It is a post about Carl Sagan, who argued that the God portrayed by traditional religions “is too small. It is a God of a tiny world and not a God of a galaxy, much less of a universe.” http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=1092

]]> By: Dan Klarmann http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/01/11/reading-about-black-holes-might-make-you-feel-small-and-insignificant/#comment-15668 Dan Klarmann Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:33:02 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2022#comment-15668 Erich, you neglected to cite your own earlier post relating to this subject <a href="http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=863" rel="nofollow">How to make a scale model of the solar system</a> that links to the same source from which your <i>graphic size</i> link cribbed. Erich, you neglected to cite your own earlier post relating to this subject How to make a scale model of the solar system that links to the same source from which your graphic size link cribbed.

]]> By: Mike Pulcinella http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/01/11/reading-about-black-holes-might-make-you-feel-small-and-insignificant/#comment-15664 Mike Pulcinella Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:12:36 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2022#comment-15664 This post does not make me feel insignificant. Quite the contrary. When I read something like this I marvel at the extreme uninhabitable violence of most of the universe and think how very precious is this little bubble of atmosphere in which we live. Although the odds are against us being the only sentient creatures to ever have sprung into being, as far as we know we are alone in a universe that would freeze us or boil us or rip our very atoms to shreds were we to be exposed to it. Most of creation seems not to be made for us and yet here we are. You and everyone you know and see are incredibly fragile and incredibly precious. This post does not make me feel insignificant. Quite the contrary.

When I read something like this I marvel at the extreme uninhabitable violence of most of the universe and think how very precious is this little bubble of atmosphere in which we live. Although the odds are against us being the only sentient creatures to ever have sprung into being, as far as we know we are alone in a universe that would freeze us or boil us or rip our very atoms to shreds were we to be exposed to it. Most of creation seems not to be made for us and yet here we are. You and everyone you know and see are incredibly fragile and incredibly precious.

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