Science

If GOD is SO HUGE that he created the WHOLE UNIVERSE, why on earth did he make us so incredibly small?

If you stand on the moon you can't see a single human being, we are smaller than ants!
If you stand on the edge of the universe...

God must have been doing something more intricate than keyhole surgery when he knitted us together in our mothers womb!

I was thinking about this after hearing a recent sermon given by Paul Maconochie, the pastor at the Philadelphia Campus (attached to St Toms’ in Crookes, Sheffield). He touched on a theme that has always resonated with me – that as Christians, we are meant to be like stars.

Bertrand Arthur William Russell (b.1872 - d.1970) as all of you will know I'm sure, was a British philosopher, logician, essayist, and social critic, best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy.

He was indeed the atheist of my father's times. Dad trained under FF Bruce during my father's theological studies. However, coming from a atheist background Dad kept himself routed on the outside world. A crucial technique to keep oneself alert and self-aware. 

Why do I write about Russell? Well, I come from a science background, the two most influential men in my life were my father and my father's brother. Both trained at Oxford Baliol, one stuck to his atheists' roots, and became the first man to build the reliability program for the first rocket that landed on the moon and the other, my father, dropped lecturing mathematics in his early twenties in Germany, and became a theologian.

During my father's studies, Dad attended a lecture of Bertrand Russell to hear exactly what he had to say about his views of the existance of matter,and whether it continues to exist if we are not looking at it. 

Equations for Russell would look like below: 
Russell's most famous example of his "analytic" method concerns denoting phrases such as descriptions and proper names. In his Principles of Mathematics, Russell had adopted the view that every denoting phrase (for example, "Scott," "blue," "the number two," "the golden mountain") denoted, or referred to, an existing entity.

This is a photo of our solar system taken by Voyger 1 as it left our solar system at a distance of more than 4 billion miles from earth. From Voyager's great distance Earth is a mere point of light, less than the size of a picture element even in the narrow-angle camera. Earth was a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size. Coincidentally, Earth lies right in the center of one of the scattered light rays resulting from taking the image so close to the sun.