G'day there NATHANJ...

What a deep almost philosophical topic you've raised today ? I find it immensely hard to even quantify Space as it were. I understand our (Earth's) place within our own Universe, but beyond that, well I simply don't know.

Concerning the proposition that we should search our Universe in order to find another planet that's capable of sustaining life ? Why ever for? There are squillions of acres of arid areas on our own earth now.

Why should we simply abandon or give up on those places? I'm sure our dry, barren deserts would prove far easier to 'tame', ultimately settle and eventually develop now. Rather than traveling incalculable distances, with incalculable costs, in order to discover some other new world or planet, which is capable of being thoroughly plundered to assuage human greed. We're not simply another version of 'Star Trek'.

Hello o sung wu,

One point I am trying to make is that humans need to reflect on how we are living at present, when we are constantly looking for more. So for example when Australia, first had no humans (as a species) living here, these species, connected well and adapted well in a natural way.

In a day and age, where we (as humans) are still facing global problems, such as third world starvation, extremist terrorism, refugee related matters and unaddressed foreign battles that are still ongoing in 2016 - we (as humans) have to decide how or if we are going to "fit into the bigger picture".

If we are not going to consider anything, we will have to reconsider how we live at the present moment. One option was put forward by Foxy, but will people from other religions or atheists for example accept that?

A time for simple reflection by all, may be a starting point for change - but for many that will be difficult.

Those who believe in the gods generally have acted atheistically, or at least made themselves their god. Science-believers can see that when woman invented the he-man they created a carcinogen . Man-eating tigers and phallic horny-rhinos are dead meat like the Grated Barrier Reef and the boiled north pole. Humans swarm in tumour lumps along river-arteries and denuded forests. Colonising cells in the space-station are a final mortal-sign that man is infectious and terminal.

Have you ever looked through a telescope the wonders of the Orion Nebula, Eta Carina, Omega Centauri. How wonderful God must be.

Now go into a children's cancer ward in any hospital, or an amputation ward in a military hospital. Where the absence of God is very profound.

If God existed where should he be spending his time - making astronomical wonders or fixing children so they do not get cancer or healing amputees.

Your God if he exists is either a sadistic megalomaniac or a complete idiot they are the only two options.

Hi (again) NATHANJ...

I'm sorry I didn't quite understand what it was you were getting at? Having read and reread that, which FOXY has kindly shared with us all, I can only say that I understand even less about the topic than before. And that's after FOXY'S cleared reasoning that she always ensures the reader can thoroughly understand.

To be perfectly honest with you, I'm very much a pragmatist in just about all that I do and say, so much of this esoteric material, including the wearing of white robes, and listening attentively to this monotonous type of sub-cultural mood music, is totally beyond me I must confess ! Still best of luck with your topic NATHAN J.

TheAtheist,
So your view since you do not accept the reality of principles of design and purpose is that the world is actually Sadistic, megalomaniac based or completely idiotic; they are the only options in your view.

Obviously we do not look to you for answers for the reality. For this is your actual view of the reality. Much of the problems are human inflicted and we have the God given intelligence to discover the causes and eradicate them.