Happy Birthday Universe!

The Universe turns 6987 today.*

Here are a few pictures of the family celebration:

*At least that is what Johannes Keppler claimed according to the History Channel (Universe is created, according to Kepler), Wikipedia puts his estimate of the age of the universe at 6002 years old.

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& while he & many others may not have gotten the exact date right, this is just a reminder that scientific research was originally motivated by faith in God & an attempt to understand how the universe created by God was set up by Him to work.