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Previously on Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world. Throughout human history, people have wondered

about the world around us. How did it begin? How was it structured? Are we living on a flat

earth? Are we living on a ball? Are we at the center of the universe? What are the planets?

How far away are the stars? Well, we'll be talking about all these questions and more on this

episode of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world. And here was the kicker. In the letter, Hubble used

the exact same technique for gauging a distance to the spiral that Shapply had devised

from mapping the arrangement of globular clusters around the Milky Way. Applying the

Sephyad period luminosity formula that Shapply had derived, Hubble calculated a distance to

Andromeda of around 1 million light years. In other words, Hubble politely threw Shapply's own

Sephyad formula back in his face and showed that Andromeda really was a million light years away,

which meant in turn that it was another island universe. And that is how we found the universe.

We now knew that the Milky Way is just one in a sea of island universes.

You're listening to episode 245 of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world, where we look at mysteries

from the twin perspectives of faith and reason. In this episode, we're talking about how the

universe began. I'm Dom Betanelli, and joining me today is Jimmy Aiken. Hey Jimmy, how do you

dom? Many ancient cultures held that the world has always existed. Greek philosophers like

Aristotle taught this and they helped give the idea intellectual prestige. But the Bible teaches

that the universe began a finite amount of time ago when God created it in the beginning.

When Europe was thoroughly Christian, this view was accepted. But with the scientific revolution,

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