@caesar-salad
I think one of the reason God gave us the other planets was that we might compare our lovely earth to them.
Of course it is foolish to think God didn't foresee the advance of technology. That is that with time man would be able to harness various laws of nature to do such things as SEE other worlds and even GO to other worlds.
I think of course God watches over all advancement of human knowledge. He foresaw our telescopes, satellites, rockets, and whatever the future technology now unknown, may bring. But being transcendent over all time, God just awaited for man to COMPARE his earth with Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, (and Pluto the demoted planet). By comparison it dawns upon human beings more and more how utterly privileged his home world is.
We need all these worlds. Yet we do not need them for the same thing. Thank God that Jupiter sucks up so many large objects plunging into the solar system which could destroy the earth.
Thank God for such a unusually sized and positioned Moon to stabilize the earth as she moves within her "Godilocks Zone" of habitability.
Jay Richards
The Privileged Planet
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