[quote="Chris Peterson" post_id=308734 time=1607269228 user_id=117706]
[quote=rstevenson post_id=308733 time=1607268752 user_id=124801]
I’m curious when the common name was changed from “Pillars of Creation” to “Pillars of Star Creation”. Were religious groups complaining?
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On APOD, it seems the shift happened between 2015 and 2016. There's nothing to suggest that the name has changed at NASA or anyplace else I can find. A Google search has the term with "star" added only existing on a couple of APODs and nowhere else.[/quote][quote=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Creation#Name]
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<<Pillars of Creation is a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, specifically the Serpens constellation, some 6,500–7,000 light years from Earth. The pillar structure of the region resembles that of a much larger star formation region in the Soul Nebula of Cassiopeia, imaged with the Spitzer Space Telescope in 2005 and characterized as [b][color=#0000FF]"[i]Pillars of Star Creation[/i]".[Nemiroff, R.; Bonnell, J., eds. (16 September [u]2008[/u]). "W5: Pillars of Star Creation". Astronomy Picture of the Day. NASA.][/color][/b] or [b][color=#0000FF]"[i]Pillars of Star Formation[/i]" [Nemiroff, R.; Bonnell, J., eds. (20 November [u]2011[/u]). "W5: Pillars of Star Formation". Astronomy Picture of the Day. NASA.][/color][/b]. They are so named because the gas and dust are in the process of creating new stars, while also being eroded by the light from nearby stars that have recently formed.
The "[b][u][i][color=#0000FF]Pillars of Creation[/color][/i][/u][/b]" name is based on a phrase used
by Charles Spurgeon in his sermon "The Condescension of Christ":
[list][b] In calling the Hubble's spectacular new image of the Eagle Nebula the Pillars of Creation, NASA scientists were tapping a rich symbolic tradition with centuries of meaning, bringing it into the modern age. As much as we associate pillars with the classical temples of Greece and Rome, the concept of the pillars of creation – the very foundations that hold up the world and all that is in it – reverberates significantly in the Christian tradition. When William Jennings Bryan published The World's Famous Orations in 1906, he included an 1857 sermon by London pastor Charles Haddon Spurgeon titled "[i][color=#0000FF]The Condescension of Christ[/color][/i]". In it, Spurgeon uses the phrase to convey not only the physical world but also the force that keeps it all together, emanating from the divine: "[i][color=#0000FF]And now wonder, ye angels,[/color][/i]" Spurgeon says of the birth of Christ, "[i][color=#0000FF]the Infinite has become an infant; he, upon whose shoulders the universe doth hang, hangs at his mother's breast; He who created all things, and bears up the pillars of creation, hath now become so weak, that He must be carried by a woman![/color][/i]"[/b]>>[/list][/quote]
[quote=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Spurgeon]
<<Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was an English Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers". He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day.
Spurgeon strongly opposed the owning of slaves. He lost support from the Southern Baptists, sales of his sermons dropped to a few, and he received scores of threatening and insulting letters as a consequence.
[list][b][i] Not so very long ago our nation tolerated slavery in our colonies. Philanthropists endeavored to destroy slavery; but when was it utterly abolished? It was when Wilberforce roused the church of God, and when the church of God addressed herself to the conflict, then she tore the evil thing to pieces. I have been amused with what Wilberforce said the day after they passed the Act of Emancipation. He merrily said to a friend when it was all done, "Is there not something else we can abolish?" That was said playfully, but it shows the spirit of the church of God. She lives in conflict and victory; her mission is to destroy everything that is bad in the land. The Best Warcry, March 4th, 1883'[/i][/b][/list]
In a letter to the Christian Watchman and Reflector (Boston), Spurgeon declared:
[list][b][i] I do from my inmost soul detest slavery . . . and although I commune at the Lord's table with men of all creeds, yet with a slave-holder I have no fellowship of any sort or kind. Whenever [a slave-holder] has called upon me, I have considered it my duty to express my detestation of his wickedness, and I would as soon think of receiving a murderer into my church . . . as a man stealer.[/i][/b][/list]>>[/quote]