From: A Creationist’s Challenge To Evolutionists

The earth receives an incredible amount of energy from the sun, even though the sun is 93,000,000 miles away. Yet the earth only receives one part in 2 trillion of the sun’s total energy.

And since the sun is only an average star among the 100 trillion billion* stars in the universe, the total energy in all these stars is absolutely beyond human comprehension.

( I have read that the number of stars is greater than the number of grains of sand in every beach and desert in the world! )

* * *

* 100 trillion billion stars = 100 trillion x 1 billion

or

100,000,000,000,000 x 1,000,000,000

or

100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

or

10 to the 23rd power

So the total energy of the stars in the universe

is about the power of 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 suns!

Or is even greater than

if all of the grains of sand in the world

would each emit the power of the sun

simultaneously!

Lower portion is © 2007 Jeff Fenske – copy freely

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