What Will Happen to God When Our Sun Blows Up and We're All Gone


We humans have a grim future. That's treated as a joke among atheists. They say if God, and all gods, only exist in the minds of humans they will disappear when humans disappear. And, there is not a shadow of doubt the earth will one day fry. Will God fry at exactly the same time as humans? There can be no doubt god will not survive if the minds of humans goes up in smoke.

Scientists who study stars, there are at least thousands of them visible from earth, have plotted a predictable pattern. They can find stars that are burned out. There are stars newer than the sun and have certain characteristics. Knowing all this they can estimate the life of our sun. Fortunately they say we have a few billion years left. 

How long we have left is beside the point. The point is earth has a shelf life. God has exactly the same shelf life so far as anyone knows.

Christians, and all the other religions, should be supporting space travel. Instead of sending money to missionaries in developing countries to save them from hell they should be sending their entire collection plate every Sunday to NASA. Or, maybe to one of the private companies now going into space. 

If humans could successfully live and reproduce on some other planet God could also. That is, of course, if the humans have not latched onto some other god in the meantime--a likely event if history is our guide. Humans have had other gods for most of their history and some grabbed to Christian God relatively recently. We're talking millions of years here and religions have always been a revolving door.

A scientist in the link reminds us the sun is but a ball of gases. It is burning up these gases and there is no metered line to somewhere else to replenish them.    

Actually, I subscribe to the set of people who do not believe much of earth will survive the billions of year until be sun closes down. Humans have the capacity of destroy much of what supports them. Either through wars, accidents of selfishness over a long period of time the earth will lose its ability to support the nine billion people now or expected soon. 

My guess is that many of the faithful who read about earth's finite existence look to their clergy for answers.  Good luck with that.

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