Our Awesome Universe - Church of God - NEO

4"Out there" is a vast region to which mancannot penetrate.One author put it aptly, when he admitted:"Our knowledge is confined not only in spacebut also in time. Techniques of radio astronomyare developing and they will soon reach out to thisBOUNDARY WALL, but without hope of going beyondit." (The Limits of Science, Pierre Rousseau, page176, 177.)But what remains on the "other side"?Astronomy remains silent."We have reached the unknown, our terminus,"he continues. "We sought the end of theuniverse and IT HAS NONE. Our most powerful techniquesleave us face to face with the unexploredvoid .. . we do not know what lies beyond the frontierof the perceptible universe" (page 180).Yes, man's mind is limited!He is reaching the barrier of his observableuniverse.We want to know WHY, from our earliestmoments. We want to know HOW a certain householdmachine works. We want to know WHO MADEcertain things. Little children begin asking WHERETHEY CAME FROM, much to the flustered embarrassmentof many youthful parents.Perhaps answering these more simple questionsis not so difficult.And yet - even that childish wondermenttakenback to the earliest beginnings of the humanrace, deals with the ORIGIN OF MANKIND.But here we find a great paradox!Man, in all his sciences, must finally admithe DOES NOT KNOW, by himself, where all this vastuniverse, with the solar system and life on thisearth, came from.So he invents lame excuses disguised aserudite hypotheses -lumped together as thetheory of evolution.Why? Because he is driven by a MOTIVE.The Basic QuestionsWHY does this universe - as infinite as itappears to be - operate on mysteriously lawfulprinciples?WHERE did the matter in this "infinite" universecome from? WHO or WHAT was responsible forbringing this universe into existence? Or was it"always" here? WHERE is the universe headed?These are the basic questions. Yet, science hasNO ANSWER!You've just read a few facts concerning thesize of the universe. It's staggering, awesomeevenwhat little we can grasp of its size. But sizeis just one factor.Rotations of astral bodies and their interrelationshipscan be MATHEMATICALLY predicted.There are LAWS that guide and direct the functioningof every part of the universe.Could this all have evolved? Did it alwaysexist? Did matter mysteriously come out of"nothing"?These are basic questions you NEED to knowthe answers to. And believe it or not - you CANFIND the answers.We humans are normally inquisitive. Thewhole impetus of scientific research - especially inthe fields of geology, astronomy, biology andmany, many of the more special studies - is thatof a thirst for KNOWLEDGE.Basically, it is a desire to understand theORIGIN of things.What MOTIVATES Man's "Knowledge"He doesn't even RECOGNIZE what these motivesare.But let's hear from a famous author and manof intellectual repute. Here is a shocking admissionabout motives. About REASONS for denial of supernaturalorigins. Reasons for rejecting a SPECIALCREATION of everything, and for seeking to explaincreation WITHOUT a Divine Creator!"I had motives for not wanting the world tohave a meaning; consequently assumed that it hadnone and was able without any difficulty to findsatisfying reasons for this assumption ...."For myself as, no doubt, for most of mycontemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessnesswas essentially an instrument of liberation from ...a certain system of morality. We objected to themorality because it interfered with our sexualfreedom; we objected to the political and economicsystem because it was unjust ...."There was one admirably simple method ofconfuting these people [supporters of the acceptedpolitical, economic and religious systems] and atthe same time justifying ourselves in our politicaland erotic revolt: we could deny that the worldhad any meaning whatsoever."Similar tactics had been adopted during theeighteenth century and for the same reasons ....The chief reason for being 'philosophical' was thatone might be free from prejudices - above allprejudices of a sexual nature." (Aldous Huxley,Ends and Means, 1937, pp. 312, 315, 316.)