The Heavens Declare!

Roiling cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit tear across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour from Planetary Nebula NGC 6302 in this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 (NASA)

Space the final frontier! I'll say!

The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
(Psalm 19:1).ESV

I remember reading a story of a small child who was looking up into the inky black darkness of the night sky, observing the vast stars...and in a moment of inspiration asked her Father..." Daddy if the wrong side of heaven looks so beautiful, what must the right side look like"?

The heavens declare the glory of God! And so they do, and that truth is not going unnoticed.

In a very insightful blog Oklahoma Pastor Wade Burleson, shared the following story that references Dr. Robert Jastrow, the former head of Mt. Wilson Observatory in California, a prolific author, and a self-described agnostic.

Dr. Jastrow, wrote a book entitled "God and the Astronomers" near the end of his life. From Dr. Jastrows book we learn that scientists are having to admit that space provides certain astronomical evidence, for creation: Pastor Burleson writes:

The "astronomical evidence" to which Jastrow refers is the scientifically proven fact that the universe is expanding. Beginning with Albert Einstein, in 1915 and his Theory of General Relativity, scientist began to discover that the universe has not always been here (the static universe theory), but was created in a moment in time and is exploding outward in all directions (the Big Bang). Dr. Jastrow goes on to write:

Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth ...

"That there are what I or anyone would call supernatural forces at work is now, I think, a scientifically proven fact"

Jastrow believes "supernatural forces" (i.e. "God") is now a "scientific fact" because science follows its own scientific method and knows:

(1). Whatever begins to exist has a cause;

(2). The universe began to exist;

(3). Therefore the universe has a cause (i.e. "God," "The Intelligent Designer," "supernatural forces.").

Pastor Burleson summarizes:

The price of the book is worth what Dr. Jastrow writes next. I laughed out loud when I read it.

"For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about the conquer the highest peak. As he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."

The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
(Psalm 19:1).ESV

The heavens declare! Indeed!!