Above are pictures of earth taken from various space probes the furthest is from Voyager 1 taken as it was leaving the solar system at 4 billion miles. The others are taken from Saturn, Mercury, Mars, the Moon and the Galileo prob heading out from earth.
In them earth looks pretty small when compared to the vastness of the universe.
Cark Sagan upon seeing the picture from Voyager1 taken at a distance of 4 billion miles said,
“Consider that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, every human being who ever was lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religious, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there- on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot A Vision of the Human Future in Space.
If that’s all we are a bit of evolved protoplasm sitting on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam if so I think human existence is pretty lonely. If not meaningless.
I look at those pictures of earth and am overwhelmed at how small we are in the universe. Yet I know in my heart there is a God who created it. That he even entered his creation in the form of Jesus Christ in order to point man to God.
Albert Einstein wrote,
"Human beings vegetables or cosmic dust. We all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player".
Albert Einstein
I believe the mysterious tune is time. The invisible player is God.
The bible states,
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
Genesis 1:1
It doesn’t argue the point. God exists period. It’s that simple.
As I look at the universe in all its complexity from the distance galaxies to the smallest subatomic particle. I see form. I see mathematical formulas that allow us to predict what is happening in the world around us.
We may not have all the formulas yet but given time and good science we will.
People say to me the bible is off when it comes to creation. It couldn’t have been made in six days.
I say he could have done it but does it matter whether it was made is six billion years or six days. The important thing is God created it.
The psalmist wrote,
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.”
Psalm 19:1.
When I look at creation I cannot believe that it all occurred by chance. It is too perfect.
I believe the Apostle John when he wrote,
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
In him was life, and that life was the light of men....
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth."
John 1:1-4,14
Think about it.
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