Here's something that may interest you concerning one Mormon's viewpoint on cosmology http://www.hiltonbooks.com/The_Kolob_Theorem.pdf Most of it makes sense to me except for the fact that the Earth had to be moved an extreme amount of distance to its present location within the Milky Way is what seems to be a too short of a period of time to make it totally believeable. (P S: Who's John Pratt?) --- On Mon, 12/13/10, garrard55@xmission.com <garrard55@xmission.com> wrote: From: garrard55@xmission.com <garrard55@xmission.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Mormon astronomy clarification To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Date: Monday, December 13, 2010, 12:38 PM While a discussion of these issues on the email forum would be helpful, I would not wish to offend anyone unduly. If you would like, I would be happy to have private exchanges. I am seeking information, not necessarily initiating discussion here. Does that make sense?