Garbage, Flip Flops, and Astronomy Textbooks

So last night I decided that since I had to get up early to go to work that I would take the trash out on Monday night (obviously because trash comes on Tuesday morning, amazing!). Anyway, it was pretty nippy Monday night, and not wanting to belabor my task I put on the pair of shoes closest to the door, my bazooka bubble gum flip flops. As I was hauling out the garbage cans, and as my toes began to feel the icy bite, the silvery stars grabbed my attention. You see I spent all last semester taking an astronomy class where we had to study the constellations and what-not. So, I tried locating some of the objects that I had learned about. And then as I was pondering Orion's belt and my frostbit lowermost digits, it struck me and I was appalled, no not that frostbite is fast but the amount of time my Astronomy textbook spent on explaining the origin of the universe. So, when I got inside I ran to my textbook and counted 11 of 24 chapters and numerous uncounted passages that discussed a Secular explanation for the origin of our universe. Literally, well over 1/2 of the text was dedicated to origins. However, what percentage do our churches dedicate to origins? Why don't we hear about Genesis and the story of our Creator and His marvelous creation? When I look at the heavens I cannot help but wonder at the genius of our Creator's mind. He made the Eskimo nebula (see above). God said let there be and there was the Eskimo Nebula. I want to remind you that although the orange band around it is 6,000,000,000,000 miles across and it is 5,000 light years away, God has it in control. He made it and it is his. The secular humanist understand that a universe without a Creator will produce the exaltation of man (the epitome of Adam's folly) which is what we all desire in our depravity. However, when we recognize God as Creator of everything, including the Eskimo Nebula, we will be able to give up our desire for self-exaltation and seek the Exaltation of the Almighty. So, that's the corolation between Garbage Cans, Flip Flops, and Astronomy Textbooks!

For His Renown,
BenZ