May not be entirely related to atheism, but which god could be bothered to make all of this...

imbobbathefett · 6 months

i always love seeing the deep field picture. so awe-inspiring

WingFinger · 6 months

B-b-but that just shows how amazing He is. /s

Mudskunk · 6 months

'Which God could be bothered to make all of this?'

Clearly sir, you have not played Minecraft.

Gramma42ton · 6 months

Yes and after god was done with that, he decided to spend his time making sure monkeys on a remote planet at the back end of nowhere aren't having anal sex

grumpyoldfart · 6 months

Gawd created all that just for you.

GreenTwin · 6 months

Yep. God created ALLLLLLLL of that, and even more!! Just to show that we are the center of the universe, the only life, and the only thing he cares about. He went though ALLLL that trouble creating things we'd never see so that he could have a personal relationship with us all.

rerin · 6 months

I just had an existential crisis looking at that. Not sure whether to upvote or downvote.

drieger22 · 6 months

The one frame scares me because some fundie will latch onto the "so large physics says it shouldn't exist" statement as proof of divine intervention. No matter how illogical their reasoning is, I can see someone pulling that.

Demonchicken · 6 months

I LOVE this, to think on how small we really are and to think of the possibility that life is out there.

tsingi · 6 months

This has nothing to do with atheism.

But it's really cool, so up vote from me.

ggpurehope · 6 months

I can't say anything. It's just amazing. This is so incredible. Makes shivers inside me.

thereandwhereagain · 6 months

There is no freaking way we are alone in this universe. No freaking way.

Guy_Barker · 6 months

Love pictures like this. It's my person opinion that these posts are fine in /r/atheism because it's the haven for Sagan and Tyson lovers, besides /r/space.

Novea · 6 months

If I was an all powerful being with an eternity to twiddle my thumbs, I'd totally do it.

Heck, I'm thinking it'd be a lot of fun to make planets just because I could.

Blondiey · 6 months

Like previously said, that's awe-inspiring. It makes me feel so small.

mr_regato · 6 months

Use PNG for these. Compression is not lossy so you don't get the artifacts.

I cannot read your jpg.

giffles · 6 months

thought for sure there would be a small "your mom" pic at the bottom. i was very disappointed.

vagatarian · 6 months

Yeah, if god spoke to Moses? of his accomplishments, his godliness, his omnipotence, why did he not mention the trillions x trillions of stars he created? Seems like relevant information that would have a place in the book of genesis? Or maybe he's just so intent on appearing humble he was willing to intentionally hide this information?

Sodfarm · 6 months

Born too soon.

RodrigoAlves · 6 months

And while we are here debating religion, billions of alien species are laughing at us.

Crispyanity · 6 months

For some reason this made me feel incredibly optimistic and happy.

[deleted] · 6 months

i love when a good thing gets reposted. lots of people should see this.

historianLA · 6 months

I just need to point out that not all theists are anti-science. There are many Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, etc. that believe in the scientific understanding of the cosmos. They just also believe that at some point... a point which science may never be able to unravel (based on its own theoretical models) there was a power that brought the universe in all its complexity into existence. These theists just believe that faith exists alongside science to explain different things using different paradigms.

rvbfreak · 6 months

The catholic god does. And he needs your money. (George Carlin)

faithhammer · 6 months

I am curious...If it took "god" 6 days to create the earth, how long would it have taken "him" to create all the stellar bodies in the universe?

BigBelly86 · 6 months

The Scale of the Universe

Enderkr · 6 months

Things like this always make me feel so tiny and sad that there's all these great things out there to be discovered, and we haven't discovered them yet. Makes me feel happy, too, but man....

elgorath · 6 months

I don't believe in any god, but if there was such a thing as an omnipotent god I wouldn't imagine there'd be any such a thing which would be considered a "bother" for him to make simply by the definition of omnipotence.

Hmm. How to put it in a way that makes it sound like I'm not defending religion. Could batman give your dad a good beating? Obviously he couldn't as he isn't real, but by the powers he is assigned trough the imaginations of his creators your dad would probably get his as whooped in an imaginary fight.

Edit: Double negative removed.

winto_bungle · 6 months

I love this. This is my number one reason for being an atheist.

All I have do do is try and imagine the vastness of the universe and religion pales into insignificance.

paddymac1991 · 6 months

Aside from the fact that this only adds more ridiculousness to the thought of religion, the Hubble deep field is one of my favorite pictures. So awe inspiring to know how small we are. Simply amazing.

Alexiel17 · 6 months

I love this post, it makes me feel better about breaking up any relationship with my cheating ex, that's irrelevant to the universe... n.n

Sandbox47 · 6 months

It's like God is playing minecraft and constantly making things more and more complicated, ignoring his previous constructions.

kontankarite · 6 months

I always thought it was critically weird that god would waste so much effort and time to go out of its way to create such an elaborate and flawed design. While the universe is truly boggling to behold, it doesn't seem to be very useful in regards to what a god should be capable of.

If god created all this, then why is it so flawed? Why disease? Why carnivores? Why planets? Why the size of things? Why the existence of useless organs and left over parts like vestigial limbs?

A lot of the time, theists will tell me it was all done to impress us and compel us to glorify god. But I find that problematic because if all we ever knew was a simpler and more perfect design, we'd still be impressed.

theothercoolfish · 6 months

You know, when people ask why I don't believe in god, it's this sort of stuff that I love to respond with. What would it take for me to believe in a god? Well, what if the universe was just our solar system. Fuck that.. not even, just the earth. And there was no death, no diseases, no parasites eating kids eyes out. No pain, no suffering. Everyone would have enough to eat, there wouldn't be murder death and destruction. We'd all have free will, but no one would be an asshole and do bad things because there'd be no point to it. No one would die. Everyone would be happy happy happy all the time. And the god character would come around and touch us and we'd somehow feel even more happier and fucking ponies could talk and shit. Oh and on Monday's regular laws of physics wouldn't apply, so you could bounce around in no gravity and stuff (if you wanted to). Instead we've got this, and for some reason I prefer it because it's so much cooler.

quackzila · 6 months

I wonder how Christians would explain lightyears since god supposedly created everything 6 thousand year ago or so.

haroldp · 6 months

This graphic is suffering from compression fatigue so bad, space has turned grey.

keeblur · 6 months

I've always been open to the notion of a "God" that didn't create everything in it per se, but sparked the events which allowed it all to transpire. Pretty much a lazy cosmic entity who made the universe self propagating and self sufficient without it's need to be there. Something far beyond our understanding.

But a God who cares about us, hears our thoughts, grants us eternal life because we've been subservient to "him". That's just a load of shit.

nomadz · 6 months

Duh. That's why polytheism makes more sense. There's no way a guy could manage all that shit all by himself, even with his omni-something powers. There has to be a god for each star system, then a god-boss for every galaxy, a superboss-god per galaxy cluster, and maybe every trillion year they elect an übermega-god to manage the whole team. And I'm sure he looks like that !

carlsaischa · 6 months

Wow the universe is so big!! God is amaziing!

WonLife · 6 months

Could someone please explain the second to last slide. My mind can't understand it.

makken · 6 months

I've always found the video form of these pictures to be more inspiring.

theShiftlessest · 6 months

Where can I get more info on how that galaxy shouldn't exist according to our current theories. That's incredibly interesting!

samosandblasted · 6 months

It's more like...we're merely the pond scum floating on the surface of one planet surrounding one of these stars. Thinking that a "God" could exist and would be influenced by our prayers is even more outrageous than 1 bacteria exchanging a nitrogen atom with another bacteria under the armpit of a cheetah in Africa affects the amount of solar wind on Alpha Centauri

shm00ps · 6 months

Nah none of this is real, this is satan tricking your mind (and the telescope around the world).

pomo · 6 months

All of those galaxies are full of Muslims... apparently.

papa_lurks · 6 months

Venus looks a lot different than what I'm used to seeing.

HiZenBurg · 6 months

I always know whats coming but still read through to the bitter end.

PhotonicDoctor · 6 months

Which god? Particle 010.

Yuoaman · 6 months

Couldn't we have started at Arcturus Station? I mean... it is the capital.

fabiobean · 6 months

i thought after the 17th panel it was going to show a picture of your mom.

EvOllj · 6 months

Some measurements result in approximately 40% of all red dwarf stars (thats 80% of all stars in the milky way) having a super-earth within its habitable zone. (they measured enough of these stars and found >300 extrasolar planets to make that approximation, the problem is that only very few of them are detectable at all for now).

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=22313

Thats 100 earthlike planets (1x to 10x the mass of earth) that can have liquid water on their surface within 30 light years.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/28/super_earths_hundreds_close_by/

oD3 · 6 months

This just makes my brain fizz. The universe is so big its just impossible to even wrap your head around it.

mjolnir616 · 6 months

space is big

agentmuu · 6 months

Surely you've seen this.

Shangheli · 6 months

I wish I had a star ship all to myself, I would leave earth and spend the rest of my life exploring.

xoxota99 · 6 months

It was no bother, really. Glad you like it!

dwmfives · 6 months

Now I know this is the wrong subreddit to point this out in....but...any god?

How many of us have played countless hours of games like Minecraft, Simcity, Pokemon, etc; obsessing over the most mundane details?

Actually, hey notch! SpaceCraft would be a lot of fun!

Edit: the point doesn't escape me, just as an Agnostic floating between super general Christianity and Atheism, this isn't one of those arguments you guys sometimes have that make me say DUH RELIGIOUS PEOPLE

black_tea · 6 months

but which god could be bothered to make all of this...

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Theists - 0

Lord_Tynan · 6 months

As both a spore and minecraft enthusiast, I sir, I.

sprkng · 6 months

I like the video version of the size comparison http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q

KittyL0ver · 6 months

Isn't the slide describing the most distant objects as 13 billion light years away wrong? The observable universe is 46 billion light years in any direction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe

kenttouchthis · 6 months

do you have a link to the original image?

schad500 · 6 months

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strivingforever · 6 months

Can someone explain how being big can defy physics?

Nincro · 6 months

I would love an explanation to this and it's probably very simple... but how can the hubble transmite these images when it's billions of miles away?

Nu11ington · 6 months

He did have some 14 billion years

wojovox · 6 months

Every time I see the size comparisons of our star to other stars, I still can't comprehend it.

AmberWings · 6 months

I kind of find this comforting. With so much beauty in the infinite depths of life, no matter what the outcome is, it's going to be alright. All of that will go on with, or without, us.

We came from stardust, and it's to that which we must someday return.

Nerdtendo · 6 months

There's a DLC joke in there, somewhere.

d12nt_ban_me_again · 6 months

Is r/atheism braindead? A theist could use the same fucking picture as evidence of god. I'm not talking about religion here, I'm talking about theism.

Also, everyone should visit a planetarium at least once. Amazing stuff. If anyone is ever in NYC, the hayden planetarium has amazing shows.

GGN00bz0r · 6 months

it's beautiful isn't it ?

LORDJEW_VAN_CUNTFUCK · 6 months

An omnipotent one. He could do have done it without any exertion whatsoever.

klownxxx · 6 months

i think you are underestimating god's power.

mattjustcame · 6 months

Here is why I don't think this is a valid argument that there is no god. Why would a god create the entire earth for just a few people? He obviously knew that the human population was going to expand so we needed more places to go. Once Earth had no more room the next logical spot would be going to another planet and then another planet and then spread across the universe. Once it was time for us to go to another planet, god knew that we would have developed the technology to do that.

cobdale · 6 months

damn, what an original idea! havent seen those picture 1000 times or anything!

LokiTheSkeptic · 6 months

GAWD CREATED THINGS FOR HUMAN ENJOYMENT, IT CAME FROM SOMEWHERE

helalo · 6 months

good place to a god to play hide and seek, no ?

Headcap · 6 months

If i were god I would make the shit out of that, and show myself to all developed worlds and say: "DO NOT FUCKING WORSHIP ME!"


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