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I cannot see how it is a sin unless its prosecution severely disadvantages others. For example, it mote be that a nation that carries out expensive space exploration on th eone hand while its citizens, on the other hand, are starving, ill-housed, or unable to obtain necessary medications could be considered sinful.
However, it would not be the exploration per se that was sinful, but the expenditure on the exploration that would alleviate the dufferings of its people.
MRGANITE
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Originally Posted by ScottGem
Stephen Hawking just went on record as saying the only hope of the survival of the human race is to colonize space.
I ain't gonna disagree with a man of his intellect.
Hawkins can be controversial. For instance:
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. ]
Stephen Hawking, Der Spiegel, 1989
Definately not. I've never heard of anyone, even extremists, claiming it is. Have you?
There are some who feel that the tower of Babel caused God to become angry because the tower was getting too high. So they extrapolated from this belief to man reaching for the stars.
Others pointed out that God gave man the earth as his domain and sole responsibility and made him a caretaker of it and that nothing was said about the material heavens They also cited a scripture that states that to God belong the heavens.
Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. KJV
In fact, away back in the sixties when the manned moon exploration had started many thought that God would intervene because man was going where he had no right to be going.
Anyone of Hawking's intellect is going to be controversial at times. I see absolutely nothing wrong with M:RGANITE's quote. I agree with what Hawking said there.
I would think that Hawking would be a Deist. But since I share that belief, just more reason for me not to contradict him.
RGANITE
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