Gensis lessons

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1. Tohu Vavohu-verse 2 Earth was unformed and void

A. Vastness of universe
1. Voyager
NASA's two venerable Voyager spacecraft are celebrating three decades of flight as they head toward interstellar space. Their ongoing odysseys mark an unprecedented and historic accomplishment.
Voyager 2 launched on August 20, 1977, and Voyager 1 launched on September 5, 1977. They continue to return information from distances more than three times farther away than Pluto.
"The Voyager mission is a legend in the annals of space exploration. It opened our eyes to the scientific richness of the outer solar system, and it has pioneered the deepest exploration of the Sun's domain ever conducted," said Alan Stern, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "
For the past 18 years, the twin Voyagers have been probing the Sun's outer heliosphere and its boundary with interstellar space. Both Voyagers remain healthy and are returning scientific data 30 years after their launches.
Voyager 1 currently is the farthest human-made object, traveling at a distance from the Sun of about 15.5 billion kilometers (9.7 billion miles). Voyager 2 is about 12.5 billion kilometers (7.8 billion miles) from the Sun. Originally designed as a four-year mission to Jupiter and Saturn, the Voyager tours were extended because of their successful achievements and a rare planetary alignment. The two-planet mission eventually became a four-planet grand tour. After completing that extended mission, the two spacecraft began the task of exploring the outer heliosphere. More on the interstellar mission.
"In December 2004, Voyager 1 began crossing the solar system's final frontier. Called the heliosheath, this turbulent area, approximately 14 billion kilometers (8.7 billion miles) from the Sun, is where the solar wind slows as it crashes into the thin gas that fills the space between stars. Voyager 2 could reach this boundary later this year, putting both Voyagers on their final leg toward interstellar space.

The spacecraft are so distant that commands from Earth, traveling at light speed, take 14 hours one-way to reach Voyager 1 and 12 hours to reach Voyager 2. Each Voyager logs approximately 1 million miles per day.
Each of the Voyagers carries a golden record that is a time capsule with greetings, images, and sounds from Earth. The records also have directions on how to find Earth if the spacecraft is recovered by something or someone.

2. Earth may survive sun's demise
Earth Might Survive Sun’s Explosion
By DENNIS OVERBYE
What happens to planets when their stars age and die?
That’s not an academic question. About five billion years from now, astronomers say, the Sun will run out of hydrogen fuel and swell temporarily more than 100 times in diameter into a so-called red giant, swallowing Mercury and Venus and dooming life on Earth, but perhaps not Earth itself.
Astronomers are announcing that they have discovered a planet that seems to have survived the puffing up of its home star, suggesting there is some hope that Earth could survive the aging and swelling of the Sun.

B. Vastness and mystery of earth-midrash onm the verses in chapter one concerning the species created


"The task of identifying Earth's estimated 10 million species has daunted biologists for centuries - fewer than two million have been named. Using a technique called DNA bar coding, researchers at Rockefeller University and two Canadian institutions have uncovered four new species of North American birds. The findings are reported in the September 28 issue of Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology.
The result is an important step toward proving that the sequence of a short stretch of DNA — a so-called DNA bar code — can be used genetically to identify known species and to find new ones.
"A uniform system to use DNA to identify all plants and animals would allow many more people — from environmental regulators to nature lovers — to identify organisms," says Mark Y. Stoeckle, M.D., guest investigator in the Program for the Human Environment at Rockefeller University.
"For humans, birds are probably the easiest species to identify. They're big, they're colored differently, and they sing different songs. Yet even in that easy to identify group, there are hidden species," says Stoeckle.
As the cost of DNA sequencing goes down, Stoeckle and other proponents of DNA bar coding envision developing a hand-held device that amateur naturalists and others could take outdoors for species identification.
"New species won't be determined by DNA analysis alone," says Stoeckle. "Morphology, behavior, and vocalization, for example, will still need to be accounted for in determining whether something is a species. But barcoding will enable rapid screening of large numbers of organisms and highlight those with novel bar codes that are likely to be new species."

There may be 100 million unknown species on earth
2. Lessons from Genesis- Many cultures have creation myths. What lessons does ours teach-choose any or all-its not meant as science but as our orientation to life
a. Take care of garden
b. God behind creation. We are not alone. Einstein believed
c. Adam Echad-
1. No one can say my father is better than yours
2. God's mint is different than Roman emperors. When he mints, they are the same, but God's mint from Adam turns out unique individuals.
d. We are made in God's image. Each human is holy.

Message- live our lives knowing God is behind creation, treat all with reverance