"mike3" <mike4ty4@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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If God wanted to make only one
planet with life why would He make the universe so big?

    As an atheist, I have always considered Genesis 1:17 to be so 
nonsensical that anybody believing it would have to conclude that were it 
true, this god would have to be the most energy inefficient entity around. 
Billions and billions of stars were created for the purpose of giving light 
to the earth at night.  Try going out on a night when there is ONLY 
starlight and you won't even be able to read a newspaper.  Makes the 
internal combustion engine and the incandescent light bulb look like 
extremely high energy conversion devices.