Have fun applauding God all week!
December 9, 2012Christmas day is coming and the year is almost over. Every December, the subject of the Bible Lesson about atomic force asks us to ponder whether the universe has progressed from mindless dust into a beautiful, complex, and varied expression of life, and if the power behind this is due to some inherent power of matter. The words that are in the subject of the lesson need definition. The word evolved means changed, developed, progressed. Force equals power. Universe seems easy, but this is going to be kind of long. Universe means all known creation, which is beyond what the human mind can imagine. Traveling at the speed of light, it would take over 12 billion years to cross the [visible] universe. There is an average of a billion stars in each galaxy. [Our own] Milky Way galaxy has 200 billion stars [that spin in a large spiral pattern]. One galaxy has 100 trillion stars in it. The number of stars in the observed universe is believed to be about one septillion, which is 1024, or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars. (http://www.universetoday.com) Put another way that is one billion trillion stars. What an enormous number. According to some sources, that number is greater than the number of drops of water on earth. Back to definitions. The word man means humanity. The word including means containing or involving. This week, each section features one of the days of the creation story from Genesis.