{"id":2588,"date":"2008-07-05T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/07\/star-wars\/"},"modified":"2008-07-05T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T13:18:00","slug":"star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/07\/star-wars.html","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/SG-uyzr6L7I\/AAAAAAAABpU\/GolPMRmufnE\/s1600-h\/hubble+4.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0px auto 10px;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_5BV_YADVD7o\/SG-uyzr6L7I\/AAAAAAAABpU\/GolPMRmufnE\/s320\/hubble+4.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br>I\u2019ve been reading a book by Chet Raymo called <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic\">Skeptics and True Believers.<\/span>\u00a0As a scientist he tries to pull of a quasi religious sense of awe by invoking the vastness of outer space and the billions and billions of years that the world has been in existence.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This one has always baffled me. Who cares if the universe is vast if it\u2019s empty? Nobody has found anything out there so far but rocks floating around. So what if it\u2019s big? What if ours is the only inhabited planet? If so, it\u2019s like an oasis in the Sahara. Who cares if there are thousands of square miles of empty sand. It\u2019s the one little pool of water that matters. If this is so (and science hasn\u2019t come up with anybody else out there yet) then we\u2019re right to be anthropocentric and geocentric.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The same applies to the billions of years of evolution. These guys love telling us that, \u201cThe billions of years of evolution have gone before us and if all that time was condensed into the ten thousand years of human history we would be the last half a second\u201d\u2026or some such. So what? Who cares if it was trillions of years if nothing much happened except evolution of our species. Maybe the billions of years was just preparation for our time. It\u2019s like waiting at the station for a train. You might wait three hours, but it\u2019s the one minute when the train comes in that\u2019s important.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been reading a book by Chet Raymo called Skeptics and True Believers.\u00a0As a scientist he tries to pull of a quasi religious sense of awe by invoking the vastness of outer space and the billions and billions of years that the world has been in existence. This one has always baffled me. Who cares [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Star Wars<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;ve been reading a book by Chet Raymo called Skeptics and True Believers.\u00a0As a scientist he tries to pull of a quasi religious sense of awe by invoking\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/07\/star-wars.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Star Wars\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#039;ve been reading a book by Chet Raymo called Skeptics and True Believers.\u00a0As a scientist he tries to pull of a quasi religious sense of awe by invoking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2008\/07\/star-wars.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Fr. 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