Debate: Should mankind invest in the exploration of space?
Side: yes

Your theories are built upon untestable and unobservable science. This is not knowledge but it is assumptions.No, it is creationist propaganda. They are theories, which means that they passed the rigors of scientific reasoning, which means they are based on evidence, logic, and laws. You assume how the universe formed. Yet you can't explain the very origin of matter, energy, and time. These are assumptions they are not even in the same realm as scientific law. The big bang is not an assumption. It is a theory. Try again.Also, do us all a favour and complete the following sentence: "The mechanisms that god used to create matter, space, and time were _____ "I argue that our planet is very special and extraordinary. There have been no other planet that even compares to ours. Prove it. I follow parsimony, you do not.False, there actually is a formula for that theory. Try looking it up. You did not negate my statement. There are billions of billions of planets out there. Life seems to just require the right solar distance, time, liquid water, and organic compounds. These are common things in the universe.False again, Quasars are all recorded at an insurmountable distance from us. Supernovas occur within the older globular clusters (that is no where near us). Do you even know the immense amount of distances between celestial objects? http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htmOf course, the simple answer is that supernovas and quasars (I forgot neutron stars) put out huge amounts of energy that could fry our little planet from distances of light years. It's likely that we won't encounter them, because of our location in the galaxy, but they are a possible threat depending on future orbit paths. For example, we are colliding with Andromeda, which means that its massive gravitational objects may affect our planet in the distant future.This is based on what, our observations in that amount of time? Nope it is just assumption. Based on our planet's history of extinction events.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_events I didn't even touch upon natural disasters which occur on Earth itself. Ice ages, climate change, supervolcanoes, not to mention worldwide epidemics and atomic wars.So false it isn't even funny. According to your secular scientists the Sun is still on the main-sequence and will be for another five billion years (of course that is an assumption as well). And you are talking about times that greatly exceed even our existence. There is no reason that our species couldn't exist for billions of years given certain requirements like an imposed evolutionary stasis. If we can't do that, we will continue to father child races for all those eons.False, you have assumptions. None of your theories are testable or observable. You keep saying that but I am not convinced you even know what constitutes theory and science.My answer is the authority of God. He was there when the universe began, so I would rather trust in His account then some assumptuous man.What you actually said was:My answer is the authority of primitive man (they invented your god, after all). They were not there when the universe began, but I would rather trust in their account than some scientists.What you said, if we actually follow your assumptions, was:My answer is magic. I would rather trust in magic than reason.