Science coming closer to Heaven

   When I was attending the old Monroe Elementary School on the corner of 4000 West and 3500 South in Granger (now West Valley City), we of course studied science, including the "science fact" that space is empty and that we are alone in the universe. This was before spaceflight, before man had entered the "space age."

 

My fifth-grade class at Monroe Elementary.
So many of these classmates were friends all
the way through high school -- and beyond. 

 I remember in the fourth or fifth grade being in a debate on whether there was other life in the universe and if we've been visited by aliens from other worlds. I believed then that it's very possible we've been visited. As part of my argument in the affirmative on UFO visits, I read the scripture from The Pearl of Great Price, Moses 1:33: "And worlds without number have I created; and I also created them for mine own purpose; and by the Son I created them, which is mine Only Begotten." (I bet kids couldn’t do that today!)

  Anyway, the class took a vote, and our side won -- we aren't alone and we’ve been visited.

   Mankind has come a long way in "science fact" since the 1960s. It’s only been since the Hubble Space telescope was launched in 1990 that scientists have gradually come to the realization that there are anywhere from 300-million to upwards of 40-billion Earth-like worlds in the just the Milky Way.

11-foot replica of the Christus statute in
the North Visitors Center on Temple Square.

The “learned people” back in Joseph Smith’s day (1830s) laughed at the idea that there might be other worlds in the  universe like Earth. 

   Further, in the Doctrine and Covenants D&C 88: 12, 37, 95, 110 12, Joseph Smith received these revolutionary concepts: “Which light proceedeth forth from the presence of God to fill the immensity of space … And there are many kingdoms; for there is no space in the which there is no kingdom; and there is no kingdom in which there is no space, either a greater or a lesser kingdom.”

   Science is slowly seeing the grandeur of God's kingdom, thanks to Hubble telescope and other and even newer penetrating telescopes. 

Check out this link: http://www.flixxy.com/hubble-ultra-deep-field-3d.htm