... considering almost every star that we can see at night with our bare eyes, is a collage of history. (Ignoring our solar system for a sec) As many know the closest easily visible star to Earth is Alpha Centuri (Proxima Centuri is slightly closer, but fainter), and that's about 4.5 light years away. Of course, much of what we see is far more distant. So our night sky is a massive collage of time, ranging from a matter of minutes (in the case of our Sun) to tens of thousands of years. And if you include the Andromeda Galaxy, which is faintly visible to the human eye... what we see with our own eyes is staggering.
I'm always amazed at how "small" fundamentalists' idea of God is. Even though I'm an atheist, I have to say that if God exists, then the magnitude of creation is something that they completely miss!
(Sorry for my mini rant. As I'm sure many know this anyway. But sometimes I like to vent! ... I almost majored in astronomy in university, hence my "soapboxing"
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