https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySLMHFOZA7o

It is an interesting question. Certainly not more than one God the father who created the whole universe, including all the galaxies.

From a Christian perspective we are taught that God sent his one and only son in the body of Christ. Galaxies do not interact very often. Really only when they merge with each other. For example, the Milky Way will merge with Andromeda in another 4 billion years.

Does that mean the Milky Way is so special, and if intelligent life arose in the Andromeda galaxy would those intelligent beings located in Andromeda simply be out of luck for 4 billion years ? What would the presence of God and or the son of God be in the Andromeda galaxy?

I am sure that intelligent life is evolving all over this universe. That is a question that cannot be answered for about 4 billion years when the Milky Way will finally merge with Andromeda. By then I expect the human race will have colonized the entire Milky Way galaxy.

Within a 100 hundreds years telescope technology will be good enough to resolve planets in our galaxy quite well and determine if there is life on those planets. Resolving planets orbiting stars in the Andromeda galaxy would be more difficult, but imagine what could be done in 10,000 years. By then we should know something about the evelolution of life in the Andromeda galaxy.



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MAKE MY LIFE better or more worthwhile?
I wil still have to provide food--shelter-- and clothing
No mattere what the future hlds.!!

Your answer is in the King Follett Discourse.

Our ghawd, Elohim, has a ghawd, who has ghawd, etc., and there is no running out of turtles.

With 6 trillion Galaxies, and counting, who's to say how the spoils are divvied up?

My ghawd could kick your ghawd's backside.

My ghawd just happens to be sensitive... Poetic, even! His anteroom is so tastefully done!

The Oscar Wilde of the Celestial Kingdom? I should have known.

What you know v. what you should have known . . .

What an amusing topic of conversation!!

My God is a woman with biblical PMS. Don't piss her off.

I hope that humans, and our successors, are around to see first contact. I think our best hope for survival of our species is to start forming self-sustaining colonies off-planet.

The majesty of the universe does have the tendency to make our religious systems and beliefs seem puny by comparison.

One novel that I really enjoyed this summer was "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir. If you've ever seen the movie, "The Martian" with Matt Damon, which was based on Weir's novel of the same name, then you might like this novel as well (although there is more overt science fiction in it.) Weir uses real-world science to the greatest extent possible in his novels, and his main characters use that science to solve complex, urgent problems. By the end of Project Hail Mary, I was a believer. Science is our best hope for solving our problems. If you believe in God, or a god, then I would be perfectly happy saying that God gave us science, and expects us to use it to the greatest extent possible.

Gawd told his profit(sic) Joe that he had created “worlds without number.” The Milky Way has roughly 100 billion stars. Many of those stars have planets, but certainly not all of them, and it’s reasonable to assume that the overwhelming majority of those planets are uninhabited (would the almighty consider uninhabited planets to be “worlds”?).

100 billion is a big number, but it’s still a number. In order to have worlds without number, Elohim must have other galaxies.

Or maybe Elohim is not that good at math. Considering what he gave JS as a translation device, less than 200 years before the development of the iPhone (a vastly superior device), I’m guess science is not his strong suit.

In fact, I’m not sure what his strong suit is.

I have recently been reading about the Ludlow Massacre. Stop the world, I want to get off onto a better one.

If a cell could question, that is."Are there other bodies out there comprised of their own cell-systems?" Like thedesertrat1's comment above, would such knowledge in any way release the cell from its own function in its containing organ, system, and human body? Again, if that cell had volition, it might be NOT to become cancerous and thus work against the harmonious functioning of its local part.

If God created the universe, then who created God? And who created the creator of God?



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Ah yes, the age-old question.

Here's the answer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down#/media/File:River_terrapin.jpg

It's sort of a reverse King Follett.



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What type of galaxies are able to stop producing their own stars, and start consuming other galaxies instead?

A couple of points:

If Andromeda is colliding with the Milky Way in 4 billion years, that’s about the same time the sun will expand and toast everything on earth.

Second, galaxies don’t actually collide. Stars are so far apart, that even with many billions of stars in each galaxy, the statistically most likely outcome is that the two galaxies will pass through each other with no direct collisions between stars. The gravitational pull will distort the galaxy shape, but it’s not like there will be a bunch of extra stars within commuting range.

Each galaxy has its own black hole singularity and each black hole singularity could contain its own mini-universe, which would finally solve the Hawking Paradox.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a40847455/hawking-paradox/

“One new iteration of this idea suggests that the singularity at the heart of a black hole - the infinitely curved point at which all laws of physics break down- is actually a separate and distinct infant universe.”

This thread reminds me a famous scene in Animal House
https://youtu.be/JUOGxePBs50