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- | ====== Looking at World History ... ====== | + | ====== Looking at Natural |
- | Saturday, Oct 20, 2018. | + | Saturday, Oct 20, 2018. It is fascinating to look at the whole development of our world. When you |
+ | visit some science museum, you will be amazed about the nearly incomprehensible time scales of developments | ||
+ | which have led to the world as we know it today. We explore the beginning of the universe, with what | ||
+ | we call a big explosion or big bang many millions of years ago. We can calculate the numbers - yet | ||
+ | they are completely out of range of what we we usually can understand or get our hands on. | ||
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- | ** | + | ** |
+ | But the story continues. All the millions of suns have formed in different galaxies. | ||
+ | All the planets have a beginning. And then, on one | ||
+ | particular planet which we know - our earth - the life we know has developed. | ||
+ | We know fantastic plants and a diversity of animals. We explore | ||
+ | their history. We find artefacts coming from millions of years ago. Still these scales are beyond | ||
+ | our ability to fully understand them. But the story continues! | ||
+ | About 5000 years ago human history began. It seems it came out of nowhere. You find remainders | ||
+ | of culture on China, in Africa, in the Middle East. History started, culture started, people | ||
+ | developed language and writing. Humans learned to build houses, to settle, to become community. | ||
+ | We try to grasp and understand our origin, our history, our nature. | ||
- | {{ 2018: | + | As humans we live on the surface of a blue planet. Above us there is about 70 kilometers |
+ | of atmosphere, but even at 8 km height it is to thin to breath. The planet has a radius of 6371 km | ||
+ | on average, with 40.000 km if you travel around once. To get to the other side today you need | ||
+ | to travel 20.000 km, which takes you about about 22 hours on a modern standard airplane at a speed of | ||
+ | 900km per hour. This is our world, we live in! For a single human, it seems large. For mankind | ||
+ | as a whole, it is a tiny place. | ||
- | ** Christianity | + | {{ 2018: |
- | + | ** Creation Accounts ...** | |
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+ | Coming out of a science museum - or reading a good book about the worlds history - I am deeper and | ||
+ | deeper amazed by the way the bible tells the story of creation. It puts it into a framework of | ||
+ | seven days - " | ||
+ | the summary a typical evolutionist today would formulate -- just without acknowledging God: | ||
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+ | 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day. [...] | ||
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+ | The bible sees a creation in what we observe as evolution today. It sees God at work in building | ||
+ | the pieces and history which we perceive as fact. The creation accounts are putting into place the basic | ||
+ | components of our world: the earth, night and day, time and development, | ||
+ | race. It describes that it came into the world, step by step, made by an eternal creator. We are part | ||
+ | of something fantastic, something great, something made in an unbelievable way. Let us take it that | ||
+ | way, with awe and admiration. It tells the greatness of the maker, what ever you think about him. | ||
(Roland Potthast) | (Roland Potthast) | ||
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