Tweet   The Kepler telescope uses the transit method to find planets, which means it can’t see the planet until it is "eclipsing" its star. In order for that to happen, it has to be at the perfect angle between us and its star. This means that Kepler is only capable of seeing a TINY fraction of the planets that are near us. That, too, greatly adds to the numbers of planets we can safely assume are out More..there. Ouch, Creationists...ouch.