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The first time I ever seriously considered the stars was when a group of youth and parents from our church decided to go to the local planetarium to see some of the best photos of the stars ever taken. Leaning back in my chair in the darkened room in order to better view the reproduction that shone against the domed ceiling, I was awed by the magnitude and beauty of the universe.
At the end of the program, the announcer said what we had just seen was
proof that we human beings as well as the heavens were simply part of an
ongoing evolutionary process.
"How could he say that?" I wondered to myself. Even though the universe is expanding, that doesn't prove that people came about by blind chance. I knew that Jesus had created all things "that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible" (Colossians 1:16) and that the heavens declared the glory of God (Psalm 19:1; 97:6)—not mindless evolution.
So I found it puzzling that people could view our magnificent universe and think that it all came about by mere chance—that we and all we can observe are simply a cosmic accident.
In pondering this experience, I came to realize that one's view is greatly influenced by whether one believes in God and, subsequently, by one's ability to recognize the evidence of God's involvement in everything that we see.
Since the vast majority of our readers already know that God exists (see our article "Let Me Introduce You to God" in the January-March 2009 issue), in this article we'll consider the biblical story of the stars and why this knowledge is so important.
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