The heavens are telling of the glory of God

Psalm 19 (NASB) from the daily reading in the One Year Bible

The Works and the Word of God.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.

The heavens are telling of the glory of God;
And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.
² Day to day pours forth speech,
And night to night reveals knowledge.
³ There is no speech, nor are there words;
Their voice is not heard.
⁴ Their line has gone out through all the earth,
And their utterances to the end of the world.
In them He has placed a tent for the sun,
⁵ Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber;
It rejoices as a strong man to run his course.
⁶ Its rising is from one end of the heavens,
And its circuit to the other end of them;
And there is nothing hidden from its heat.

⁷ The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul;
The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
⁸ The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart;
The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
⁹ The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever;
The judgments of the Lord are true; they are righteous altogether.
¹⁰ They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold;
Sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb.
¹¹ Moreover, by them Your servant is warned;
In keeping them there is great reward.
¹² Who can discern his errors? Acquit me of hidden faults.
¹³ Also keep back Your servant from presumptuous sins;
Let them not rule over me;
Then I will be blameless,
And I shall be acquitted of great transgression.
¹⁴ Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer.

The psalmist says:  The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.

Earlier this week the was an article on Huffingtonpost titled Earth 2.0 Bad News For God. The article begins with this paragraph:

The discovery of Kepler-452b is not likely to see the public swoon with a collective rendition of Kumbaya. But this Earth 2.0 is a huge if under-appreciated discovery, not because Kepler-452b is unique but for just the opposite reason; there are likely thousands or millions or even billions of such earth-like planets in the universe. The discovery of just one such world is good evidence for many more: after all, we know of 100 billion galaxies each with as many as 300 billion stars (big variation per galaxy). Astronomers estimate that there are about 70 billion trillion stars. Math wizardry is not necessary to conclude we did not by chance find the only other possibly habitable planet among that huge population of stars.

The thing that amazes me is the writers claim that math wizardry is not necessary to conclude we did not by chance find the only other inhabitable planet, does nothing to disprove the existence of a creator, rather it strengthens the case. First of all his statement makes no sense because if we as human beings came forth through a random sequence of events, evolving from a single cell organism into what we are today, then we did nothing to find any planet. To use the writers term of math wizardry,  I freely admit I am not a math wizard, but as he says math wizardry is not necessary to know that if the odds of one planet randomly coming into existence through a series of events, with an atmosphere  that supports life and then life itself randomly appears, something from nothing, if the odds of that happening once are millions or billions to one, how much less likely is it, how much do the odd increase exponentially, against the possibility, if there are two such planets, or more?

Genesis 1:1-2  says: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. ² The earth was formless and void…  The rest of the creation account is about what God did here on earth. It makes no claim to know or explain what God did in the heavens.  Every new thing that man thinks he discovers is not new at all, it is only farther evidence that we really, even after all these years of great scientific advances, are only beginning to understand the vastness and the intricacy of creation.

 When science doesn’t know the answer to something, it creates theories (guesses) to explain what it does not know. It was scientific theory that believed the world was flat. It was scientific theory that believed the sun revolved around the earth. It was scientific theory that thought that they could relieve headaches by drilling through the skull, fix sicknesses by allowing leaches to suck the bad blood out of a patient, the list goes on and on. The bottom line is science can only explain a very small percentage of what it takes for our life to exist and continue, the rest they guess at.

As for me, I will agree with the psalmist:

⁷ The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul; The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. ⁸ The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. ⁹ The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; The judgments of the Lord are true; they are righteous altogether. ¹⁰ They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb.

When there is something I don’t understand or can’t explain, I will lean toward faith not a guess. I don’t expect that I will change a single mind by what I write. I recognize what it says in 1 Corinthians 2:14:    The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit., and I will stand by what it says in 1 Corinthians 1:25:    the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight,
O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer. Amen