and you thought that you were small and insignificant before?

These photos taken by the Hubble space telescope are really breathtaking and extremely thought provoking. A while ago I listened to a lecture series on the theory of life on other planets, which basically theorised that with the vast number of suns out there, with potential solar systems, it would be almost crazy and naive to believe that this is the only planet with life. The photos in this video put some of those words into perspective.

One thought I've come up with before is that, with God being so unfathomable and all, what's to say that he didn't create thousands of Edens with slight variations so that he could watch the whole thing play out. Maybe on one of the other planets, no-one was foolish enough to eat the fruit, or maybe it took 3 or 3000 generations before someone tried, who really knows??