Comments on: Science vs. The Bible http://www.anatheist.net/2008/11/science-vs-the-bible/ Atheism & Religious Skepticism Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:54:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Markus http://www.anatheist.net/2008/11/science-vs-the-bible/comment-page-1/#comment-1267 Markus Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:57:52 +0000 http://www.anatheist.net/?p=974#comment-1267 >Many stars exist which are so far away that it has taken far longer than 6000 years for their light to reach us That's an understatement. For every 1 star that's within 6000 light years, there are approximately 1000000000000000 stars that are further away - a quadrillion (10^15, a million billion). I don't think "many" does it justice. "Most" probably wouldn't do it justice. Detail: Orders of magnitude calculation assuming 10^9 stars nearby, 10^24 further away. Sources for the numbers: <a href="http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM75BS1VED_index_0.html " target="_blank">http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM75BS1VED_index_0.html...</a> <a href="http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/5000lys.html " target="_blank">http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/5000lys.html </a> >Many stars exist which are so far away that it has taken far longer than 6000 years for their light to reach us

That's an understatement. For every 1 star that's within 6000 light years, there are approximately 1000000000000000 stars that are further away – a quadrillion (10^15, a million billion). I don't think "many" does it justice. "Most" probably wouldn't do it justice.

Detail:
Orders of magnitude calculation assuming 10^9 stars nearby, 10^24 further away. Sources for the numbers:
http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEM75BS1VED_index_0.html...
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/5000lys.html

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