Creation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church
Creation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church
Creation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church
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The famous astrophysicist Hugh Ross 1 tells us this:<br />
Time is that dimension in which cause and effect phenomena<br />
take place. . . If time's beginning is concurrent with the beginning<br />
of the universe, as the space-time theorem says, then the cause of<br />
the universe must be some entity operating in a time dimension<br />
completely independent of and pre-existent to the time<br />
dimension of the cosmos. This conclusion is powerfully important<br />
to our understanding of who God is and who or what God isn't.<br />
It tells us that the creator is transcendent, operating beyond the<br />
dimensional limits of the universe. It tells us that God is not the<br />
universe itself, nor is God contained within the universe.<br />
To conclude I want to share with you a personal reflection. I never fully<br />
understood Psalm 19, verse 1, which says, “The heavens declare the<br />
glory of God”, until I started preparing this lecture for you. I now<br />
realize that when in 1929 Edwin Hubble looked at heaven through his<br />
giant telescope, and saw as if it were the hand of God expanding the<br />
Universe as a man stretching a curtain, it was the heavens declaring the<br />
glory of God to him.<br />
And when Penzias and Wilson directed their radio telescope towards<br />
heaven, and heard that background noise coming from the beginning.<br />
It was as if they were listening to the echo of the shouts of the angels<br />
when they first saw the miracle of creation. It was the heavens declaring<br />
to them the glory of God.<br />
And when in 1992, those NASA scientists sent the COBE satellite<br />
toward heavens, and were shocked by what they learned. And when<br />
their team leader George Smoot declared in awe, “It’s like looking at<br />
God.”, it was the heavens that declared to him the glory of God. That<br />
glory that was His even before the Universe began, and will still be His<br />
even after the Universe meets its end and shall be His even forever and<br />
ever. Amen.<br />
1 Hugh Ross has a wonderful website about the science and the<br />
creation: http://www.reasons.org/ I recommend it for any one<br />
interested in more details about this topic<br />
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