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I’ve enjoyed this quote from a book I’ve recommended, Gethsemane, by Andrew C. Skinner. It gives some indication of the vastness of our cosmos: “Astronomers tell us that our solar system is located in a spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, a flat, disc-shaped cluster of stars approximately 100,000 light years across at its widest point. A light year is the distance light travels in one year. Moving at the speed of 186,000 miles per second, a beam of light traverses 5.7 trillion miles in 365 days! The size of our galaxy in miles is a staggering 5.7 trillion times 100,000, and it is estimated to contain 200 billion stars, 50 percent of which (100 billion) possess solar systems like our own. The next closest galaxy is Andromeda, a galaxy much like our own Milky Way, that is approximately 2.2 million light years away from us. Further more, our best telescopes can probe outward into space to a distance of approximately 5 billion light years and view about 500 million galaxies,... Read the rest of this entry »

Today, in the Gospel Essentials class, we discussed the Creation. This study (and lesson) is based upon Moses 1:27-42, and Moses 2-3. The purpose of this particular study was to understand the nature of the revelation given to Joseph Smith about how God revealed to Moses the creation of all things. In order to understand [...]  Read More →