The Great Attractor- possible location of heaven?

Question

I am an explorer and this sorta thing fascinates me. I believe a compromise can be met between Theology and Science. I believe the truth we all seek is somewhere in between.

I have a theory that the region of space known as 'the great attractor' could be Heaven itself. science can't account for this special anomaly- surely its something mystical beyond human comprehension lies there. My hypothesis is that this region which binds 1000s of galaxies together is Heaven. God and his hoards of angels may well be situated here.
I think that the human race should pool all its resources/finance into building a spaceship that can reach the great attractor. it might take a few years to get there but once we do we will know the truth: whether god exists or not? then all the wars on Earth can stop once and for all.

who agrees with me? explain your reasoning in your answers

Answer 1

While I do agree with you I'm more prone to take it from the scientific side of things.



Science cannot account for everything in the universe (right now if ever) but you can't just cover in the gaps with any old fairytale that comes to mind i.e. religion.



That being said the only thing that has ever escaped me and made me feel a little odd was the fact that there is a medium that my mum likes to have readings with. I can't explain using common sense some of the things my mum tells me he has said. That being said it was my mum who got the reading and was telling me. No offence to her but she isn't exactly a reliable source since she is well and truly biased.



So what I always say is, I personally don't believe in god, afterlife or the supernatural. Something tells me that if people have been searching and worshipping for the number of years we have been there would be something to go on, some evidence, something anything. But there isn't which is where my faith fails.



But science doesn't KNOW everything. I still hold that there could be some piece of something out there that we have yet to find. Something that we haven't found so far because we didn't now how to look for it. But if it is there. It will be explainable by physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics etc. Not faith, or philosophy.



But until we find that (if we find that), if there is anything to find, I know who's camp I will continue eating in for the foreseeable future. The one with the GM food and the test tube beef.

Answer 2

Not all religions believe in the Christian/Judaean god or angels. This would not be the end of wars, but a start of new ones.



The location of the Great Attractor was finally determined in 1986, and is situated at a distance of somewhere between 150 and 250 Mly (million light years) (47–79Mpc) (the latter being the most recent estimate) from the Milky Way, in the direction of the constellations Triangulum Australe (The Southern Triangle) and Norma (The Carpenter’s Square).



You say, "it might take a few years to get there...". A slight understatement?

Answer 3

You really do live in a complete fantasy world, don't you?



The fact that there is a gravitational anomaly in no way justifies the idiotic and baseless assumption that god or heaven exists. In fact the Great Attractor is simply a super cluster of massive galaxies in the Zone of Avoidance (i.e. the area obscured by the Milky Way). X-ray analysis of this area indicates that the GA is nowhere near as massive as earlier thought and that in fact there is another super cluster beyond it to which our local cluster is being attracted.



Filling the gaps in our knowledge with "god" is as old as religion itself - "god" has always been used to explain Man's ignorance and all it shows is that Man is indeed ignorant.



"A few years" - The Great Attractor is between 150 and 250 million Light Years away. That means that even if, right now this minute we had the technology to travel at the speed of light it would take a minimum of 150 million years to get there (and another 150 million years to return and report what we'd found). That's quite a long time to wait before "all the wars on Earth can stop once and for all".

Answer 4

"I don't know, therefore God" is the absolute opposite of what science is all about. What you've suggested isn't a compromise, it is surrendering logic and intelligence. If you believe in God, you believe he gave us our brains, with all of their capacity for curiosity, reasoning, discovery. To not use the gifts God gave us properly seems like more of an insult than to rely on science to explore the universe He created for us - even if that means we don't find anything mystical within it.



The correct course of action is to continue studying the Great Attractor with the scientific method until we discover what it actually is. We don't just give up when we don't understand something, that is how we were made, that can't be what He intended for us to do - if that were the case, medicine would still be leaches, we would all be living in huts herding sheep, and you would have no computer or internet to use to ponder the great mysteries of life.

Answer 5

If heaven was bound to a location then that would mean it isn't equally accessible from all locations. You would in fact be denying one of the principle tenants of Heaven simply because you are seeking validation for your beliefs. Science is the search for truth and truth cares not about your desire to validate your beliefs. Indeed science only works if it is unbiased and you are trying to bias science.



I can't say if the great attractor is or isn't heaven but I can say you're a fool for thinking so.

Answer 6

Everyone has their own ideas where heaven is and I think that it does exist and building a space ship to go there will not work. I had two out of body experiences and saw what I perceived to be Heaven. It is just like Robin William"s "Where Dreams may come."

Answer 7

when you all die you will, you will realize you have never been more alive. Your sensory perception will be maximised also, extra modes of perception that will be beyond ones understanding. In that moment you will know everything the suddenly, fear will grip your hearts and something whispers and gets louder and deeper. You recognize it you know it you have felt it but you rejected it in your former life. It was a simple message of love about Jesus your god, now you have to face the judgement and the one who can destroy your soul. REPENT BEFORE ITS TO LATE. ALL SCIENCE POINTS TO INTELLIGENCE DESIGN STOP BEING IGNORANT. NO GOD MEANS YOU AREN T HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR YOUR ACTIONS!

Answer 8

"might take a few years to get there" - uh huh.

Its about 150 million light years from here - so even if we could travel at the speed of light (which we can't) it would take 150 MILLION YEARS to get there.

Answer 9

Heaven could be right across the street, but you can't see it and they can't see you.