Precision

April 8, 2024

It was overcast here in Sinclairville at the time of the eclipse. The sky went dark, but the corona couldn’t be seen. Fortunately, I wasn’t in Sinclairville; I was in Erie visiting my college roommate who is celebrating his 75th birthday today. He claims the universe blew out its candle just for him. 

To me, the interesting thing about all this is the precision of it all. My roommate Don learned more than two years ago that the eclipse would occur on his birthday and would be a full eclipse in his hometown of Erie, PA. So he traveled all the way from England where he has made his home for the past forty years, just to be able to see the eclipse and celebrate his birthday in a very unusual way. 

Two years ago! And because Creation is so precise, those who study such phenomena can make such predictions can do so even further from the event. The reason we can do this is because as the Bible says, our God is a God of order. Things don’t happen by chance; those who claim that life is a series of chance events that produced proteins, bacteria, and eventually multi-celled life are doing so in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. This may have been believable once upon a time, but what we now know about the intricacy of even the lowest forms of life prove the lie that has been foisted upon us for years by those who cannot or will not embrace even the possibility that life has a design, and if so, must have a designer. Such admission would be tantamount to conceding that there is a God, if the Bible is to be believed, before whom we must someday stand.

Today I witnessed an extraordinary event; one which I will not likely see again. It testified to me of the glory of God, as the psalmist said, “The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament shows His handiwork.” (Psalm 19:1)