I'd Bet It's God

I've been watching a lot of NOVA on PBS. Although a lot of what they show is completely beyond my intelligence level, I find it fascinating. Lately they have been having a series of programs on space...the Hubble telescope, black holes, dark energy, string theory, and the origin of time. The more I watch these shows the more I want to say you just don't get it do you?

As they speak of the theories of the beginnings and endings of the universe, the vastness and beauty of it all, whether the universe is expanding or contracting, what holds it all together, it just reinforces in my mind the absolute certainty of a creator. And not just any creator but THE Creator, the God of the Bible. "My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand forth together." Isaiah 48:13

One of the things discovered in the last few years is something the scientists call dark energy. They have discovered that space is not empty. In fact they stated over 70% of space is filled with an energy they don't understand and can't identify although they can recognize some of it's effects.

Scientists are baffled by this energy but I immediately thought of Genesis 1:1-2. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters." I'd bet that "dark energy" that fills up 70% of the universe, that controls the expansion of the universe, is the Spirit of God that was hovering in the beginning.

In one show questions were about how it will end. Will it all implode or explode? Will the stars fall out of the sky? And I'm thinking, yep, I don't know when or even how but I do know the stars will fall from the sky. "...the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky..." Matthew 24:29

It seems the more the scientists study the more they don't know. I enjoy their curiosity and their study and their theories. They don't expound any religious beliefs on these scientific shows but I would hope all this study leads these scientists to thoughts of the Creator. For me, the more I watch the more I believe that something so vast, so colorful, so unexplainable shouts of the glory and majesty of God. "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims His handiwork." Psalm 19:1