Seven New Planets

Seven new planets deemed habitable to sustain life were discovered recently in a solar system 40 light years away, as described in an article published in Nature Journal of Science this week.  All seven orbit a small dwarf-like star that has only 8% the mass of our own sun.  Further, the Hubble space telescope, and later the James Webb scope to be launched in 2018, will be able to detect chemical fingerprints that will describe the atmospheric structures, and whether organic life may already exist on one or more of these seven planets.  I find this all fascinating, but not particularly surprising given how advanced science has become.  As a child, I envisioned other distant planets on which people already lived in Star Trek-fashion, but it was all speculative stuff back then.  Such notions were distinctly frowned upon in proper society, though my impressions were collaborated in the tenants of my religious upbringing.  Isn’t it fascinating to have what was considered “fringe thinking” and borderline crazy years earlier can become exciting, commonplace understanding within our own lifespans? Just goes to show that Galileo was on to something, eh?

LESSON LEARNED:  Sometimes when what you believe can’t be seen or proven at the moment, you just need to hang on to your faith and be patient.  Science has a way of catching up to religion eventually.

FEEDBACK:  CAN YOU THINK OF EXAMPLES OF SCIENCE CATCHING UP TO RELIGIOUS TENENTS OVER A PERIOD OF TIME?