Whether you believe in God or not, you have to accept that some uncreated entity, outside our physical universe, resulted in the origin of our universe over 13 billion years ago. Call it God, the multiverse, or whatever, it is a major unsolved scientific mystery.

NASA’s Nancy Roman Space Telescope is expected to dramatically expand the search for planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets. Scientists estimate the mission could uncover about 100,000 previously unknown worlds, a remarkable increase compared to the nearly 6,300 exoplanets discovered so far through NASA missions and other observatories.

NASA’s Kepler mission transformed exoplanet science by monitoring roughly 100,000 stars and demonstrating that planets are extraordinarily common throughout the Milky Way. NASA’s now-retired Kepler mission’s survey of 100,000 stars revolutionized the field of exoplanets over a decade ago, and taught us that planets are even more common than stars in our galaxy.

During Medieval times Christian theologians accepted the Ptolemaic earth centered Greek view of the universe as an absolute universal truth. Some Christians still think that humans must be at the literal center of God’s creation. 

Even in America today, many Christians avoid learning about new scientific discoveries. According to a study “Religious Understandings of Science”, among members of  non-Christian religions; 42 percent of Jews, and 52 percent of Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus (taken as a group) are twice as interested in new scientific discoveries compared to only 22 percent of Protestant evangelicals.

I do not know why they believe that the rarity of life in our universe proves that God must have created life only on this planet. Perhaps they believed that if intelligent life were found to exist on other planets; it would diminish the miracle of God’s creation of Human Beings. For me the opposite is true.

Scientists have now uncovered new types of organic chemistries in icy geysers spouting from  Saturn’s moon Enceladus, bolstering the likelihood that this ocean world may have compounds and conditions suitable for life. The scientists found molecules in fresh grains, confirming they came from the moon’s underground sea, as well as new chemical compounds. 

The Qur’an and the Hebrew Bible teach that the Living God created the whole universe to be conducive to the universal evolution of life. The........

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