Help! NASA found the cosmic hand of God and it’s going to smite us.
Oh shit! I think I’m in trouble. NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory has spotted the cosmic hand of God.
I know they’re saying it is just some x-rays coming out of a nebula surrounding a pulsar dubbed PSR B1509-58. And I know the folks at Chandra say they have added the blue colour themselves to make the x-rays show up. But I’m not taking any chances. I mean would you? Look at that hand, it’s so real. It has to be God’s. At least he’s not sticking out his cosmic middle finger at me… I guess.
I’m going to believe whatever I have to. I’m going to ask for forgiveness. I’m going to do what it takes to make sure that those cosmic x-ray fingers don’t reach down and twist my head off.
Hand of God or just PSR B1509-58? Depends on who you ask.
NOT!
As NASA said in a release, “The pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron star which is spewing energy out into the space around it to create complex and intriguing structures, including one that resembles a large cosmic hand.”
And yet, there will always be people who will ignore the magnificent beauty of such a phenomenon like PSR B1509-58 and see in it what they want to and nothing else.
But hey, what could you expect from someone who calls herself godsmiraclegirl333? She says:
Although it can be explained scientifically, I don’t live in a scientific world. I live in spirit and in truth just as it is written. GOD created man. Man created science. So obviously who created science? If you disagree, then that’s fine. hehehe!
I can joke about 6000-year old earths and buried dinosaur fossils, but comments like that just make me cringe.
And she’s not alone, of course. It took me all of two minutes to dig up some more crap with people quoting stuff like:
Isaiah 48:13
“Surely My hand founded the earth,
And My right hand spread out the heavens…”
and
1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time…
Seeing this, and imagining that His hand is really there, I am humbled just thinking of how mighty He is
and in response to criticism, answering:
well, the alternative is:
ATHEISM
The belief that there was nothing and nothing happened to nothing and then nothing magically exploded for no reason, creating everything and then a bunch of everything magically rearranged itself for no reason what so ever into self-replicating bits which then turned into dinosaurs.
Makes perfect sense.
I wish that pulsar could change into a real cosmic hand, pick up purveyors of such blatant ignorance off the face of the Earth and fling them into a black hole or something.
I think maybe I’ll just keep my fingers crossed. After all, in a quantum universe, anything is possible, right?
Tags: chandra nebula, hand of god, NASA, PSR b1509-58, pulsar
GOD loves you so much!!! Whoever said it’s gonna smite you, anyway? Your own thinking.
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With all sincerity I know you dont believe that is a hand or understand it. And you are probably not interested in knowing. You will not believe it because you choose not to and you will not believe it because you dont not have the holy spirit living in you. The Bible says you WILL be blinded by the truth and will NOT understand because you are not lead by the holy spirit. I am not putting you down in any way. I am not here to comdem you and neither is God. John 3:17. I just want to tell you that Hell is real and heaven is real and if you really want to know that you have to open your heart and open your mind and ask God to make himself real to you. Show himself to you. Then and only then will you believe. I care because I know what is coming and I dont want to see that happen to you. But in the end you made your choice. I dont put you down for being athiest, please dont put me down for being a Christian. sincerely Brandon.
Hey – thanks for the laugh!
However – how long would it take a room full of monkeys with typewriters to come up with a Sonnet by Willie the Shakes?
Brandon,
I don’t believe not because I choose not to, but rather becasue there is no evidence. Choice does not come into it, and this is a big misconception many people have about atheists – that we choose to disbelieve. Actually choice does not enter into it any more than you choose not to believe in Santa Claus (I hope you don’t!). For atheists like me who were brought up in a religion and then left it, it is usually a matter of coming to realize that there is no evidence for what you were told to believe – or worse that there are big contradictions within your belief system.
Take the core Christian story, for example. Man sins. God gets angry and punishes Man. Then God decides to forgive Man, so God sends his son Jesus (who is also God himself) to die to appease God and save Man from God himself. Have you ever wondered why the story is so ridiculously convoluted? Why didn’t God just say, ‘Hey! I’m in a good mood. You’re all forgiven. No gods were harmed in the making of this religion’? (The short answer is that the Israelites were awaiting a messiah – and still are today – who was actually meant to be a military leader who would give them their physical promised land on Earth – but then the story got changed around to create a new religion.)
Any child who is not brainwashed badly enough will see through the ‘God dies to save us from himself’ at some point or another, and then the house of cards just starts to collpase. Next thing you examine the Bible closely and actually read it and understand it and it all falls apart. As an example, I invite you to take the four gospels and the book of Acts and compare them side by side. Look up facts like where Jesus was born, what he did and said, and so on and see how many important things (such as the virgin birth) don’t match up in texts that are supposedly divinely inspired. This page will show you what to look for, but don’t take it’s word. Look up the passages in your favorite Bible and see for yourself. Prepare to be surprised!
Alternatively start by taing a look at what Jesus could have done, but didn’t.
I think that the reason that many people can continue to believe in spite of all that is that they either explain away contradictions as a mystery, or else they compartimentalize their beliefs so that they keep conflicting thoughts from jarring against each other.
And in response to the, ‘you’ve got to have faith,’ argument, it just doesn’t cut it because I could have faith in anything at all. I could have faith in any religion past or current, or even in anything I make up myself.
I’ll finish off by paraphrasing Richard Dawkins to say that you are an atheist too. You are an atheist when it comes to Ra, Zeus, Thor, Wotan, the hindu gods, the Persian gods, the American Indian gods and countless other gods. Think about why you don’t believe in any of them, and then realize that people like me just disbelieve in one more god than you do.
Hope that’s some food for thought. If you’re still reading, thank you : )
Dog
Irishkeys,
I’m not sure what you mean by the monkeys and typewriters.
If you are making a comparison to evolution, then it is not a good one because evolution has selection pressure that guides its path – mutations that result in more offspring are kept in the long run, and ones that result in less are eventually weeded out (not to mention very harmful mutations that are instantly weeded out because the offspring itself does not survive).
A slightly better comparison for evolution would be monkeys with typewriters that occasionally suggest correct letters and occasionally delete wrong ones. You can surely see how that would produce a sonnet much faster.
Sorry, dog……… I wasn’t thinking about evolution. I was thinking about statistics. But never mind.
Have a nice God-less day.
fuck you athiest. just cuz something cant be proven means it doesnt exist? u think that humans are the highest life form? My theory, soon to become a law, is that all athiests suck my tiny, scrawny ballz.
YOUR KIND sickens me. So u think that the earth just HAPPENED? That life just FORMED? If the sun was any closer or farther than it is now, we would die. The chances of life “just happening” is about 1 out of infinity. Also, 2 billion people in the world are christians. u r saying 2 billion ppl are wrong? 2 billion christians vs a couple of non-believers. hmmmm… are there more belivers or athiests? i think a few ppl will go to hell and it will be the end of that. 
Never said that if something can’t be proven it means it doesn’t exist. Still, it does not have to be disproven for you not to believe in it.
Scientists have a pretty good idea of how the Earth formed and how life started. Now, what caused the Big Bang is more of a problem, I admit, but I’d rather say that I don’t know than conjure up a creator God that by definition would be even more complex than the Big Bang and thus even harder to explain.
And finally, sorry to be the one to break the bad news to you, but in just a few years, the number of Muslims will far outnumber Christians. Will you decide that Islam must be right because hey! 2 billion plus Muslims can’t be wrong, can they?
You atheists will burn in hell for your ignorance.
Thanks for letting us know. But if that’s really the case, then I wonder what will happen to all those who appear to be much more ignorant than atheists because they choose to ignore the evidence before their eyes on so many levels.
In Pale Blue Dot
, Carl Sagan wrote, “How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, ‘This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant’? Instead they say, ‘No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.’ A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.”
Think about that.
If I were God, I would actually be offended by the ignorance of the believers who cling to their silly superstitious ideas, while totally failing to grasp all the grandeur of the universe as revealed by science.
Dog,
Thanks for all your posts! I’m one of those raised to believe, but through reading the Bible came to doubt all that I was inherently raised to think. I’ve never really had arguments for not believing other than it just didn’t make sense(which was good enough for me) and science did. It was refreshing to read your posts that had arguments more than the simple, “it doesn’t make any sense and is stupid so stop bugging me about it!” route.
Kat
To anyone that was quoting:
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Isaiah 48:13
“Surely My hand founded the earth,
And My right hand spread out the heavens…”
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Unfortunately that’s a left hand that’s formed.
Not to be the devil’s advocate, but maybe we’re looking at it from the wrong side…