Boggled?

A scientist once suggested an analogy.  To grasp the scene, imagine a pefectly smooth glass pavement on which the tiniest speck can be seen.  Then shrink our sun from 865,000 miles in diameter to only 2 feet in diameter...and place the ball on the pavement to represent the sun.  Step off 82 paces (about 2 feet per pace), to represent proportionately the first planet, Mercury, put down a tiny mustard seed.  Take 60 steps more and for Venus put down an ordinary BB.  Mark 78 more steps...put down a green pea representing Earth.  Step off 108 paces from there, and for Mars, put down a pinhead.  Sprinkle around some fine dust for the asteroids, then take 788 steps more and place an orange on the glass for Jupiter.  After 934 more steps, put down a golf ball for Saturn.  Now it really gets involved.  Mark 2086 steps more, and for Uranus...a marble.  Another 2322 steps from there you arrive at Neptune.  Let a cherry represent Neptune.  And we haven't even talked about the dwarf planet of Pluto.  We have a smooth glass surface 5 miles in diameter (excluding Pluto), yet just a tiny fraction of the heavens.  Now guess how far we'd have to go on the same scale before we could put down another 2-foot ball to represent the nearest star?  720 miles.  Miles, not feet!!  And that's just the first star among millions.  And all in perpetual motion, perfectly synchronized.  Phenominal isn't the word for it.  No God?  All by chance?  Are you kidding?  "Since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--His eternal power and divine nature--has been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."  (Romans 1:20)  As one wise sage said many years ago, "The boggled mind leads to a bended knee!"

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[Mike]

That is the Big Bang theory in a nutshell!