It’s got the same climate as Earth, plus water and gravity. A newly discovered planet is the most stunning evidence that life – just like us – might be out there.
Above a calm, dark ocean, a huge, bloated red sun rises in the sky – a full ten times the size of our Sun as seen from Earth. Small waves lap at a sandy shore and on the beach, something stirs…
This is the scene – or may be the scene – on what is possibly the most extraordinary world to have been discovered by astronomers: the first truly Earth-like planet to have been found outside our Solar System.
These are the opening paragraphs of a truly earth-shattering story that was published yesterday by the Associated Press. But, being the Doubting Thomas that I am, I will need to see more concrete evidence than just the giddy apparitions of NASA scientists before I believe that God deceived us by placing twins of Adam and Eve in a Garden of Eden somewhere else in the universe.
But since confirmation of this find is probably light years away, no informed commentary is possible just now. Nevertheless, with all of the crap defiling planet earth and destroying mankind, I cannot resist the humane diversion of fantasizing about a potential escape from it all – at least for some of us.
Moreover, consider this: If we have found another planet out there that is in fact just like ours, will this finally render moot all of the Pentecostal hysteria about a global-warming Armageddon? Indeed, could this be Heaven…?
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