http://www.upworthy.com/the-single-most-mind-altering-photograph-humanity-has-ever-taken
It's amazing that an atheist like Carl Sagan can draw so much inspiration here.
I think of David in Psalm 19 - "The Heavens declare the Glory of God!"
But for the Naturalist Nature or the Cosmos must take God's place, assuming the attributes of deity.
And in many ways this Great Reality -
that we are so small and yet Human Life on this planet is so unique and significant -
serves a similar purpose as does an awareness of God.
The word "Perspective" is "spot on" here. (As the Brits would say.)
There's always something to bring my life, my problems, my suffering into a context
which both dwarves them by proportions, and at the same time reminds that small things are still meaningful.
Significance is never measured by size, but by impact or influence, like that "baby in the manger!"
The "pale Blue Dot" image and commentary would itself be brought into perspective
by a journey into the cells and molecules and atoms that make up this world,
and a consideration of their minuscule proportions, as well as their inordinate complexity and importance.
It's amazing that an atheist like Carl Sagan can draw so much inspiration here.
I think of David in Psalm 19 - "The Heavens declare the Glory of God!"
But for the Naturalist Nature or the Cosmos must take God's place, assuming the attributes of deity.
And in many ways this Great Reality -
that we are so small and yet Human Life on this planet is so unique and significant -
serves a similar purpose as does an awareness of God.
The word "Perspective" is "spot on" here. (As the Brits would say.)
There's always something to bring my life, my problems, my suffering into a context
which both dwarves them by proportions, and at the same time reminds that small things are still meaningful.
Significance is never measured by size, but by impact or influence, like that "baby in the manger!"
The "pale Blue Dot" image and commentary would itself be brought into perspective
by a journey into the cells and molecules and atoms that make up this world,
and a consideration of their minuscule proportions, as well as their inordinate complexity and importance.
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