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why would He make more planets for which there does not appear to be any apparent use?

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They have their own use, too, Silver Queen. The moon is to give us light by night and that is also part of the stars' job. Early civilization navigated by the position of the stars and marked their calendar by them, they did their agricultural duties by them. Nowadays, when man's compasses and other gizmos fail them, the stars are still there for guidance. The stars are also there for our enjoyment at night. Have you ever been out in the middle of nowhere, without the city lights to dim the stars? It's an awsome tapestry of design and beauty!

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I accept that the stars and the moon have their uses, certainly... but what of the other planets? What about Neptune and Jupiter and the others? Neptune is far, far colder than for any kind of life, as far as I know. If God created the Universe then why create just a few more planets? Why not several million of them? The only use for the planets seems to be Holst's beautiful music, 'The Planets', I love that ... Especially Mars... perhaps the planets were created so that our scientists could become obsessed by searching for life on Mars