Bad thing Quote by Lee Strobel
““Briefcase Crunch time. To escape the gravity of Jupiter, a spacecraft would have to travel over 134,000 miles per hour! Compare that to how fast space shuttles have to travel to clear the earth’s gravity–seven miles a second, or about 25,000 miles per hour. Get too close to Jupiter, and you’re not coming back! People are made for gravity. Astronauts in space have a great time floating around without gravity. But weightlessness eventually does bad things to bones and blood. Space experiments on rats in spinning cages (kind of like the centrifuge in our story, only not as dizzying) showed animals that got just a little gravity in space came back much healthier. Even before the Internet, people in Bible times had a pretty good idea of who set up the earth and the stars. Check out this psalm, written by King David nearly one thousand years before Jesus was born: “I think about the heavens. I think about what your fingers have created. I think about the moon and stars that you have set in place. What is a human being that you think about him? What is a son of man that you take care of him?” (Psalm 8:3 - 4).””
About This Quote
Source Book: The Case for Christ, 1998
Human curiosity about the cosmos reveals both scientific wonder and spiritual awe, highlighting gravity’s role in life and faith.
In simple terms: Gravity shapes both physics and belief.
Explore the intersection of science and spirituality.
Themes
Mood
Type
When to use this quote
- space exploration
- education
- personal belief
- health research
Key Concepts
Questions to Reflect On
- How does gravity affect our understanding of existence?
- Can faith and science coexist peacefully?
Scientific explanations may conflict with literal scriptural interpretations.