Many Christian people believe that our planet alone has any people, or perhaps any life at all. That we are the centre of the universe and the 'apple of God's eye'.
In my office, I have a frame with five pictures in ascending order. The first shows the earth in relation to the smaller planets in our solar system. Earth looks to be satisfactorily impressive, and very beautiful, painted in blue and earth tones and white. The second frame shows earth in relation to the giant planets, with Jupiter humbling the tiny earth. The next three frames compare our planets against our giant sun, then suns against suns, until in the last frame, against Antares, our sun is a speck.
It is hard to see that we could be the centre of the universe and that there is no life anywhere else. Secular science has been convinced that we may surely discover at least a bacteria somewhere and for some, there is the hope that somewhere out there, a more evolved or advanced race may be willing to help us from destroying our own planet.
I need a series of frames that takes me from the picture of an elephant, to an ant, to atoms to... well, the Higgs Boson and beyond....
The God particle.
The search for that something or someone who will save us, goes in both directions. Humanity thinks that if only we can either prove God does not exist, and understand how we randomly came to be, then we will have our answers and be free.
I am not sure if there is life beyond earth and I am not sure that there may or may not be other beings who are also in the image of God, somewhere on some beautiful planet far beyond our reach, or pollution.
Perhaps?
But I do know that in each of us, without him we would not have any form of life at all. As - "in him we live and move and have our being" Acts 17:28
In my office, I have a frame with five pictures in ascending order. The first shows the earth in relation to the smaller planets in our solar system. Earth looks to be satisfactorily impressive, and very beautiful, painted in blue and earth tones and white. The second frame shows earth in relation to the giant planets, with Jupiter humbling the tiny earth. The next three frames compare our planets against our giant sun, then suns against suns, until in the last frame, against Antares, our sun is a speck.
It is hard to see that we could be the centre of the universe and that there is no life anywhere else. Secular science has been convinced that we may surely discover at least a bacteria somewhere and for some, there is the hope that somewhere out there, a more evolved or advanced race may be willing to help us from destroying our own planet.
I need a series of frames that takes me from the picture of an elephant, to an ant, to atoms to... well, the Higgs Boson and beyond....
The God particle.
The search for that something or someone who will save us, goes in both directions. Humanity thinks that if only we can either prove God does not exist, and understand how we randomly came to be, then we will have our answers and be free.
I am not sure if there is life beyond earth and I am not sure that there may or may not be other beings who are also in the image of God, somewhere on some beautiful planet far beyond our reach, or pollution.
Perhaps?
But I do know that in each of us, without him we would not have any form of life at all. As - "in him we live and move and have our being" Acts 17:28