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	Biblical Conception of the Universe
		To the ancient Hebrews the earth was the centre of the universe.
		The modern concept of an infinite or open-ended universe was not known in the OT; on the contrary, heaven and earth were though to be sealed together at the rim of the hoirzon to prevent the influx of the cosmic waters (Stadelmann 1970:43).
		The earth was regarded as a vast plain, occupied partly by the sea, partly by continents studded with mountains, furrowed by rivers, and dotted with lakes.
	sol.sci.uop.edu /~jfalward/ThreeTieredUniverse.htm (3021 words)

	Earth Society Foundation - Margaret Mead
		EARTH DAY draws on astronomical phenomena in a new way — which is also the most ancient way — using the vernal Equinox, the time when the Sun crosses the equator making night and day of equal length in all parts of the Earth.
		EARTH DAY celebrates the interdependence within the natural world of all living things, humanity's utter dependence upon Earth, man's only home, and in turn the vulnerability of this Earth of ours to the ravages of irresponsible technological exploitation.
		EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys, their victories, their revelations and their obligations alive, for re-celebration and re-dedication another year, another decade, another century, another aeon.
	www.earthsocietyfoundation.org /mead.htm (595 words)

	Structure of the Universe
		The infinite universe was said to be the source of an infinity of worlds, of which ours was but one, that separated off and gathered its parts together by their rotary motion.
		The central fire was not the Sun, although the Earth was certainly of the character of a planet to it.
		Persuasive observational evidence that the universe is indeed expanding and changing in time was found by Hubble (1889-1953) in 1929 while employing the technique known as Doppler shift for measuring the red shift of colors in the spectrum of nebulae.
	www.columbia.edu /~ah297/un-esa/universe/universe-chapter2.html (2800 words)

	Foundation and Earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Foundation and Earth (1986) is a science fiction novel by Isaac Asimov, the fifth novel of the Foundation Series and chronologically the last in the series.
		The purpose of the journey is to settle Trevize's doubt with his decision at the end of Foundation's Edge to embrace the all-encompassing supermind of Galaxia.
		On the approach to Earth, they detect that it is highly radioactive, and not capable of supporting life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Foundation_and_Earth (1884 words)

	SPACE.com -- Rare Earth Debate Part 1: The Hostile Universe
		Frank Drake, chairman of the board of trustees of the SETI Institute, and professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
		Donald Brownlee, co-author of "Rare Earth," and professor of astronomy of the University of Washington.
		Life on Earth evolved from single celled organisms to multi-cellular creatures with tissues and organs, climaxing in animals and higher plants.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/rare_earth_1_020715.html (1687 words)

	Earth Literacy
		Earth Literacy as a field of study, “explores the contemporary, scientific story of the origin, nature and function of the Universe from its beginning, through its galactic phase, its supernova events, the shaping of the solar system, Earth, life, human life and self-reflective consciousness as a single, unbroken series of events.” Thomas Berry
		"Earth Literacy as a field of study, reveals that the bio-spiritual dimension of the Universe was present from the beginning and is intimately related to the emergence of human consciousness.
		Earth Literacy, as a movement, is capable of initiating profound social change, by inspiring the depths of human awe, love and feelings needed to transform our human patterns of destruction into mutually enhancing relationships with Earth’s community of life.
	www.earthliteracyathome.org /GeneralInfo/EarthLiteracy.html (301 words)

	NASA - NASA on the Prowl for Near-Earth Objects
		Image right: Research funded by NASA and the National Science Foundation has led to evidence of an impact crater believed to be associated with the "Great Dying," the largest extinction event in the history of life on Earth.
		The Spaceguard Foundation was established in 1996 and involves efforts from Europe, Asia, Australia and the United States.
		Smaller objects with diameters of 140 meters (459 feet) or larger would be expected to hit the Earth with an impact frequency of about one in 5,000 years, as opposed to one in 500,000 years for large near-Earth objects.
	www.nasa.gov /vision/universe/watchtheskies/near_earth052104.html (676 words)

	About The Earth Institute at Columbia University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Earth Institute forms Center for Hazards and Risk Research to focus on understanding processes and decision making associated with natural hazards and human-made disasters.
		Earth Institute funds initiative to introduce climate as topic to be explored by social scientists within the context of their traditional disciplinary frameworks.
		Earth Institute initiates Metro East Coast Assessment of impacts of climate variability and change on New York City as part of national assessment program.
	www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu /about/timeline.html (1241 words)

	Mother Earth
		Furthermore, Earth holds securely around us the blanket of gases that we inhale, the blue blanket that scatters and screens out most harmful radiation coming in, yet soaks up enough solar energy and holds it to keep us warm through nights and winters as well as days and summers.
		Earth is the only place where we are sure life is found, and it is so very, very small.
		Earth, then, is the most precious jewel of the entire universe to human kind.
	www.clarkfoundation.org /astro-utah/vondel/motherearth.html (967 words)

	Amazon.com: Foundation and Earth: Books: Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		I found Foundation's Edge slightly confusing in that there was something effecting the minds of both the Foundation confederation and the minds of the Second Foundation, and wasn't completely sure if it was a Third Foundation or what.
		Foundation and Earth takes us on a tour of seven different planets and the different habitations of each.
		Actually, even though there are these ambiguities on the universe here and there, Asimov does wrap up the Foundation series somewhat nicely (although you may not like it as it differs from the original Foundation series), as well as wrapping up his grouping of all of his series into one.
	www.amazon.com /Foundation-Earth-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0586071105 (2212 words)

	Ancient Hebrew Conception of the Universe and Flat Earth Biblical Belief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment." Claim is made that the statement about the earth "turn(ing) as clay to the seal" was a reference to the earth's rotation, but this passage has nothing to do with movement.
		Job 26:7 has also been cited as proof that the writer of this book knew that the earth was a sphere: "He stretcheth out the north over the empty place and hangeth the earth upon nothing." An NAB footnote at this verse says, "The North: used here as a synonym for the firmament, cf.
		Thus, being ignorant of scientific facts, they thought the earth was flat, that sick people were possessed by demons, and that essentially everything was caused by either gods or demons.
	www.edwardtbabinski.us /skepticism/universe.html (1263 words)

	CNN.com - Report: cosmos could be much older than thought - July 11, 2002
		Many astronomers theorize that the universe began with the Big Bang between 13 billion and 14 billion years ago.
		Moreover, spectral red shifts provide the scientific foundation for the cosmological model that the universe continues to expand after the primordial Big Bang.
		The team, which includes researchers at the Max-Planck Institute in Germany, said that the most likely explanation for the mystery is that the quasar and hence the universe are older than expected.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/TECH/space/07/10/universe.age/index.html (568 words)

	Earth (Foundation universe) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the Imperial Era, Earth is disliked by the rest of the Empire, and it is discriminated against.
		In Foundation, 12,000 years later during the fall of the Galactic Empire, "Sol" is just one among several candidates for the original home of humanity.
		I gave the Earth of the future a radioactive crust, at least in spots, yet it had a remnant of life and humanity clinging to it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earth_(Foundation_universe) (938 words)

	TimeLine for the Robots & Foundations Universe
		The Second Foundation Trilogy, written by Bear, Brin, and Benford is a very good read too since it explains a lot left to the imagination in the original Foundation books.
		A radioactive sparsely populated Earth tries to revolt against the Empire by using a bio-weapon.
		Foundation civilization approaches ultimate confrontation with both Gaia and Chaos.
	www.sikander.org /foundation.php (1601 words)

	The IS Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Earth was gasping for breath, struggling to coordinate itself as a whole.
		The purpose of The IS Foundation shall be to further the spiritual development and evolution of mankind through the support and encouragement of individual spiritual growth and awareness.
		We hope to keep the operating costs of The IS Foundation at a minimum, and expect that will be less than 10% of the donations received, with 90% actually paid out to further our purposes.
	home.earthlink.net /~den_is/foundation.html (984 words)

	Age of the Universe
		Concerning our question about the age of the universe, it is interesting to note that early on many cultures considered the earth to have existed first leading to the rest of the universe.
		We learned enough to notice that the entire collection of stars and galaxies we call the universe is expanding indicating that everything must have been together at a common place in space and time marking the beginning-the creation.
		If we could know how big the universe is we would know how long it has been expanding, thus how old it is. Finally we were able, with credible evidences from many directions, to give an estimate of the age of the universe: something like 12 to 20 billion years.
	www.clarkfoundation.org /astro-utah/vondel/ageofuniverse.html (909 words)

	List of minor Foundation universe planets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A planet mentioned in Foundation and Earth where Janov Pelorat and Golan Trevize met very aggressive dogs because the planet were abandoned by human a very long time ago, maybe 20000 years.
		The Foundation was attempting to bring it into its religious sphere of influence roughly twenty years before the war with Korell.
		It was in the inner provinces of the old Galactic Empire, to which Harla Branno served as an ambassador in her earlier years.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/List_of_minor_Foundation_universe_planets (1589 words)

	THE INCREDIBLE UNIVERSE
		They are well aware of the orderliness of the earth and the universe when it comes to physical laws.
		On the expanded model of the universe, scientists have calculated that the most distant objects visible are 18 billion light years away.
		In addition to this, everyone on earth will, for the first time, see the universe as it really is! And what appears in the new heavens will be an everlasting sign to all of humanity.
	www.zionministry.com /universe.html (7115 words)

	Welcome to the Simple Earth Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Simple Earth was privileged to host internationally renowned artists John Sanders, Terry Rosenberg, and Jeff Whyman.
		Universe, together with a sculpture commemorating Geneva Steel, is their generous gift to our community.
		Both Jeff Whyman and Terry Rosenberg have generously donated the proceeds from the sale of their work to the Simple Earth Foundation.
	simpleearth.com (86 words)

	A Small, Young Universe After All!
		Inside the misnamed "solar" system all the planets and the sun and the moon and the stars orbit the Earth, (The Earth is not a planet...which word means "wanderer" and--like "solar" system and capitalizing the planet's names and using the small "e" for Earth--are all just clever little indoctrination tools).
		A "small" universe with a young Earth is a model whose time is drawing very near.
		Having written The Earth Is Not Moving to demonstrate how Copernicanism has succeeded in spite of having no evidence and violating all we can see, I have only very recently been led to discover some of the additional facts related in these four short essays.
	www.fixedearth.com /a_small_young_universe.htm (2642 words)

	Foundation Review - nuwen.net
		However, if you'd like to know exactly what was going on behind the scenes in the Foundation novels or would like to know what happened to some of the early people and places you're introduced to, then you might want to read the End Foundation Novels.
		The main thing to know about the Foundation novels, all the way from The Caves of Steel to Foundation and Earth, is that it takes place in a "human galaxy".
		It won't be too much of a spoiler to say that he eventually develops this "psychohistory" and a plan which he sets in motion near the end of his life.
	nuwen.net /seldon.html (2437 words)

	EXPLORE THE UNIVERSE: Welcome
		The Universe grew from a sky of stars to a realm of galaxies, to an expanding Universe of galaxies.
		In "Explore the Universe" you will discover how new astronomical tools-from Galileo's telescope in the early 1600s to the latest high-tech observatories on Earth and in space-have revolutionized our understanding of the Universe.
		The Explore The Universe exhibition was written, produced, and designed by staff of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
	www.nasm.si.edu /exhibitions/gal111/universe/etu/html/about.html (202 words)

	Living Universe Foundation WebRing
		The Living Universe Foundation (http://www.luf.org/) is a grass roots movement for the development of ecologically sound technologies for healing the Earth and colonizing the oceans and space.
		This ring is open to all members of the foundation, or any website dedicated to science, technologies, projects, or societies interested in ocean and space colonization.
		a relaxed place for astronomers, space enthusiasts and anyone interested in the universe around us to get together and swap space, science, technology and planetary news stories and images, write a public or private space journal, take part in space polls, and learn cool things about space travel, galaxies and planets.
	b.webring.com /hub?ring=fmfring (795 words)

	The Earth Is Not Moving
		The Earth is not rotating...nor is it going around the sun.
		The universe is not one ten trillionth the size we are told.
		HERE to order The Earth Is Not Moving, The Truth About Evolution, and any of a dozen other book-length studies on Bible Doctrines.
	www.fixedearth.com (663 words)

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