Creator makes Jupiter protect Earth from comets

                         Creator has positioned Jupiter to protect Earth

We live in a cosmic shooting gallery. In Phil Plait’s Death from the Skies, he lays out the dangers of a massive impact: destructive shockwaves, tsunamis, flash fires, atmospheric darkening…. The scenario isn’t pretty should a big one come our way. Fortunately, we may have a silent guardian: Jupiter.

Is it true that Jupiter could be considered our friendliest planet because – without Jupiter – comets would be more likely to hit us?

The answer is yes …  Some astronomers believe that one reason Earth is habitable is that the gravity of Jupiter does help protect us from some comets. Long-period comets, in particular, enter the solar system from its outer reaches. Jupiter’s gravity is thought to sling most of these fast-moving ice balls out of the solar system before they can get close to Earth. So long-period comets are thought to strike Earth only on very long timescales of millions or tens of millions of years. Without Jupiter nearby, long-period comets would collide with our planet much more frequently.

In addition, in recent decades, astronomers have been able to see signs of comets that have crashed into Jupiter. There was Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994. And, in 2009, astronomers observed a dark gash in one side of the giant planet, likely caused by a comet.

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Some have wondered whether Audrey Hepburn was a saved soul. Her aristocratic mother’s family lived in the Netherlands and like most Dutch of the time were officially Calvinist Christians, although we do not know whether they were true believers. Her mother (Ella van Heemstra) was a devout Christian Scientist—a heretical belief system developed by Mary Baker Eddy. Audrey’s father (Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston) was officially a Protestant, but we find no proof that he was a true believer. He was a very troubled man—an adulterer, a Fascist, and a Nazi sympathizer—even in his old age, he apparently remained detached emotionally from Audrey, who supported him financially.

Audrey certainly did some good works on behalf of others, and she did say she had “faith” and believed in “miracles,” but the same could be said of those in Christian Science and various other belief systems. As far as we can tell, she was not religious; in fact, she seems to have stayed apart from all organized religion. She publicly said her faith was not “attached to any one, in particular, religion…. My mother was one thing, my father another. In Holland, they were all Calvinists. That has no importance at all to me.”

If she was a true believer, we found no evidence that she revealed it publicly. Only God knows her heart. Like all humans, she was a sinner in need of a savior. We can only hope that in her later days she did fully acknowledge that need and accepted Jesus Christ’s payment for her sins, turning her life over to Him, as the one and only way to God. Her Earthly life ended on January 20, 1993, due to appendiceal cancer

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