In just a few seconds the entire nation of Japan moved eight feet from its former location. It is almost incomprehensible to realize the amount of energy expended in such an event. It doesn’t take a 140 IQ to see the shape of South America and Africa to see that long ago they were not separated by the Atlantic. Our little planet is a dynamic place that can alter itself in very short periods of time. Geologic time tables are guesswork at best. Sometimes continents don’t just creep. While Genesis 7 is not a scientific account of what happened to our little world, it is the sure Word of God that something extremely violent rearranged almost, if not, everything in a very short period of incredible upheaval.
Good science is based upon very careful observation and data collection. Our difficulty is our ability to only see and record in very limited segments. One could learn how to play the game of chess by careful observation and never see a castling move if one did not occur in the games observed. One could then assume that it was impossible for a king to ever move more than one space at a time. One would be very wrong.
We are intellectual ants in a giant cosmos feeding on a minuscule amount of data. For one to arrogantly think we know much and thus cast away one’s faith that there is an all knowing, all powerful, all present, Father God would be foolish indeed. Faith continues to be a vital ingredient to our health and well-being. Wise is the person who takes Moses at his word when he says, “In the beginning God.”
Written by Roger Bothwell on March 14, 2011
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