Does Heaven Exist?
As astronomers peer ever deeper into outer space and extend their telescopes to encompass even more of the universe, as geneticists unravel the mysteries of our genes and biologists uncover more about the origins and of life, scientists are answering questions that once fell to theologians. In this technologically advanced age, we might ask what role is there for religion? And how might science and religion work together?
If heaven exists what does it look like? Could it be a gleaming tropical beach with snow, white sand, and turquoise surf with golden stars? Contact is a two-hour synopsis on religion, technology and the search for extraterrestrial life. The movie adapted from a novel ...
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she was still young, and she became convinced that someday she could contact him. This obsession is complicated by the fact that she does not believe in God. In Puerto Rico, she meets Palmer, a young man who does believe in God. They have a brief but important love affair, and then when Drumlin pulls the plug on her research, she leaves for New Mexico and an alternate SETI site. Ellie’s research project has all but ended when there is a sudden breakthrough, intelligent signals from space. Drumlin, in the manner of all the bureaucrats everywhere, forgets his opposition to SETI and takes the credit. The signals, which included a startling bounce-back of a TV image from Earth, provide a diagram for a machine that would allow one human to travel to the home of the race that sent the signal.
Before they separated, they talk about a paradox. Pondering the immensity of the universe; you’re tempted to explain it all with a concept like God, and yet you wonder if God in not an ...
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stars, in six days. But according to contemporary cosmologist the universe began with a great explosion known as the Big Bang theory, after which the stars and galaxies slowly formed over billions of years. Just as Darwin proposed that the evolution of life was a long, slow, and gradual process, so cosmologists now believe that our universe evolves by long slow processes.
To many people the relationship between science and religion is epitomized by the clash over evolution. Over the past two decades America has seen a significant rise in the number of Christian “creationists” who believe the biblical story of creation must be taken literally, and that the universe was therefore created ...
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