Extrasolar planets
If I may pipe up although this thread looks like it's winding down...there are other planets in the universe besides the eight that orbit the sun. It's not a pipe dream, a theory or hypothesis. It's fact. Here's a good article about detection methods, along with a link to a list of all the discovered planets, and some pictures of the planets themselves orbiting their stars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasolar_planets
God has created a massive universe, and while we might be special creations on Earth, there is nothing in the Bible that suggests there are no more planets out there. As we slowly discovered through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Earth is not the center of the solar system, the galaxy, or the universe. It's not perfect or even shielded from disasters that might occur from space. It's a rather small planet orbiting a rather small star (the sun is a yellow dwarf itself). There are countless stars out there, hardly countable in our own galaxy, and the galaxies themselves are hardly countable. God alludes to this many times when discussing His covenant with Abraham.
I would be very surprised if God created all that universe for just one set of planets. The probability is (even without the hard photographic evidence) that at least some number of stars in that near infinite realm have planets around them. In fact, just earlier this year NASA found 54
Earth-like planets.
God is infinitely powerful and infinitely creative, and the Bible does not explicitly deny that there is anything else in the heavens besides stars. The Bible is not a science textbook. It's a divinely-inspired infallible story of God's redemption for humankind and Israel concerned with the spiritual matters of our world. I would be very hard pressed to press limits on God and deny what our instruments tell us beyond a shadow of a doubt.
