and there's no God....?

* "The slant of the earth, tilted at an angle of twenty-three degrees, produces our seasons. Scientists tell us that if the earth had not been tilted exactly as it is, vapors from the oceans would move both north and south, piling up vast continents of ice.
* If the moon were only 50,000 miles away from earth instead of250,000, the tides might be so enormous that all continents would be submerged in water- even the mountains would be eroded.
* If the crust of the earth had been only ten feet thicker, there would be no oxygen, and without it all animal life would die.
* Had the oceans been a few feet deeper, carbon dioxide and oxygen would have been absorbed and no vegetable life would exist.
* The earth's weight has been estimated at six sextillion tons(that's a six w/ 21 zeros). Yet it is perfectly balanced and turns easily on its axis. It rotates daily at the rate of more than a thousand miles per hour, or 25,000 miles each day. This adds up to nine million miles a year. Considering the tremendous weight of six sextillion tons rolling at this fantastic speed around an invisible axis, held in place by unseen bands of gravity, the words of Job 26:7 take on unparalleled signifigance: 'He poised the earth on nothingness.'
* The earth revolves in its own orbit around the sun, making the long elliptical circuit of about six hundred million miles each year- which means we are traveling through space at nineteen miles per second or about 68,000 miles per hour.
* The nine major planets in our solar system range in distance from the sun from 36 million to about 3,664 million miles; yet each moves around the sun in exact precision, with orbits ranging from 88 days for Mercury to 248 years for Pluto.
* Still, the sun is only one minor star among the 100 billion burning orbs that comprise our Milky Way galaxy. If you were to hold out a dime at arm's length while gazing at the night sky, the coin would block out 15 million stars from your view, if your eyes could see with that
power." (Brennan Manning. The Ragamuffin Gospel)