Two people can have entirely different reactions to the
exact same evidence. On February 14, 1990 the Voyager spacecraft finished its
historic mission to the four largest planets in our solar system. NASA decided to turn its cameras around for a
final photograph of Earth. It appeared as a small white dot. Astronomer Carl
Sagan described it like this:
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"Consider that dot. That’s here.
That’s home. That’s us. Our imagined self-importance – the delusion
that we have some privileged position in the universe – is challenged by this
point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping
cosmic dark."
Because the dot of our planet Earth is so small compared to
the rest of the universe, Sagan concluded that we are deluded to think “that we
have some privileged position in the universe.”
However, in view of this spacial insignificance of earth,
others have concluded, “How special we must be that God created this entire
universe for us.” One scientist had observed that “If the universe contained a
few ounces more or less matter, it would not be able to support life.”
One set of views argues against design, the other for
design.
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