From around the 1st century BCE, they introduced a system where each day was named after one of their pagan gods, each of whom was associated with one of the classical planets. For example, Saturday wasdies Saturni, the day of Saturn. In most Latin-based languages, the names of the wee...
Giant planets are also called “Jovian Planets”.The term Jovian comes from Jove, the king of the gods in Roman mythology, and also the early name of Jupiter. Therefore, Jovian describes the other giant planets as being Jupiter-like. All Jovian planets were also once known as “G...
From Mercury to Neptune, and yes, even Pluto, most planets get their names from Roman gods. As such, we expect them to be masters of their domain. The solar system is full grains of sand, massive gas giants, and many, many objects in between. Having so many objects of different sizes...
Furthermore, religions are culturally relative and, for the most part, areinconsistent and mutually exclusive. “I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dis...
#1 – Saturn, like most planets in the Milky Way, was named after a Roman deity. In this case, it’s, well… Saturn! He was considered to be the God of agriculture among many other things, but he later on became the God of Time too. Because of this, his Greek equivalent is the...
They settled on Pluto, a name suggested by an 11-year old school girl in Oxford, England (no, it wasn’t named after the Disney character, but the Roman god of the underworld).The Solar System now had 9 planets.Astronomers weren’t sure about Pluto’s mass until the discovery of its...
The days of the week follow the same trend as the months of the year, many of which (including January and March) are named after gods from several different pantheons. The Romans, upon beginning to use the seven day week instead of the eight day, then adopted the name...
Note also that gods are (pretty much by definition) exempt from any laws of physics. So, positing a god as the source of the universe can ignore any laws of physics. If it were true that a god set up the universe specifically for us, he certainly waited a long time for the result...
Lots of cool mechanics are easier to justify if you simply say that the gods did it: Rifts between worlds, conflicts between creatures, planets bashing into one another, mindless aggressive things that it is completely OK to kill. If the devs want to do it, they need only invent some ...
Soon after my conversion, I joined the Jews For Jesus Movement and hit the streets with tracts like, “Jesus Made Me Kosher,” and, “If Only The Rabbis Knew How Wrong They Are.” Most of the Jews I encountered on the streets were not at all open to even consider the claims of ...