Why did god make so many stars?

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Why did god make so many stars?

And what do your religious texts say about the number of stars?

Apparently there are (a) 500,000,000,000 (half a trillion) in our galaxy alone (the Milky Way) and there are (b) 170,000,000,000 (170 billion) galaxies in the observable universe (there may be (c) multiple times this number of galaxies, that we cannot see).

So, multiply (a) and (b) and possibly (c) to get an extremely large number ((8.5 x 10^22) x (c)).

If you want to, Google the quran and science ore just type stars in the quran. Some good results should pop up.

coz stars are shiny.

No theists willing to tackle this one?

Here, Ill give it a shot. *Clears throat*

Because they're pretty

Because there is other life in outer space that need their own suns too

Because the universe is so damn large that one's got to fill it with something
Because blah blah blah...

…My point is that you get as many opinions as you want but you wont really get a true answer because none of us are God.

But why are they all so far away?



So, a religious person believes that god may have created life on other planets, in other solar systems, in other galaxies? What does your religion have to say about that?



Why is it so large?



But surely your religious texts give you some clues on this?

And as for what my religion has to say about it, I don't know every single Christian person on earth so I cannot ask them what they think and so I'll stick to telling you what I think. Your question is quite ridiculous and I can sense that you're seeking so sort of confrontation but please don't, this is supposed to be a calm discussion right? Think about it, would it be fair for me to ask you what every non-religious person thinks about this? Come on dude, just chill.

Well, I don't know what every other atheist in the world believes, but at least I can reference what science tells us about these things:

a) we don't really know how the universe came about, but the big bang theory is relatively well accepted.

b) with so many stars/galaxies it seems unlikely that we are alone in the universe, and more than likely that there is/will be/has been life on other planets in other solar systems (or even in this one). But that doesn't mean that our existence overlaps with theirs, or that we'll ever have any contact/knowledge of them.

c) we just accept that we don't know things and don't try to create philosophies explaining the unknown.

I don't think the question is ridiculous, I just want to know what a religious person's explanation for these things is. It's certainly an eye opener to me that you claim to be a christian, but accept that there may well be life on other planets. I ask what your religious texts/philosophy says about this, because, most often, I find that this is where religious people conjure-up their answers to the things that surprise us in life "see, we knew that all along".

I agree with all of those points- Yes the Big Bang Theory is pretty accepted,Yes we may never have contact or confirmed knowledge of life on other planets/galaxies/whatever in this life but I believe that in heaven if you want to know you can know,And yes we just accept that we don't know things and don't try to create philosophies explaining the unknown but why do I have to create another theory about the number of stars when I already have one that I accept?

You asked for an opinion right? I gave you one."but at least I can reference what science tells us about these things" Congratulations! I could tell you that too and like I said I agree with it all to an extent. I'm guessing that you're telling me all of that because you assumed that because I'm Christian I don't know this stuff, but yeah dude, I know it. But science doesn't explain why, it explain how in quite some detail- How and Why are not the same thing though. I respect and follow both and I do what I think is right.

So are you saying that you accept the big bang theory, and that the stars/planets were created by the underlying physics, rather than by god?

If the "how" is that god did not create the stars, the "why" does not matter, because god did not do it.

Or am I missing some point you are making? Are you instead asking the fundamentalist question "why are we here?". My answer to that is that we're just the result of evolution and not here for some specific purpose.