Post date: Oct 21, 2011 3:45:22 PM
Mentioned and quoted in Is Life on Other Planets Part of God’s Plan?
There's also the bigger picture stressed by Dr. Timothy Keller of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City: Scientific discoveries do not negate a God who is outside of time and outside of creation itself.
Keller tells his congregation the story of a Bible teacher he once had, who said, "If the distance between the Earth and the sun (93 million miles), is the thickness of a piece of paper ... then the distance from the Earth to the nearest star would be a stack of papers 70 feet high ... then the distance between the Earth and the outer edge of the galaxy would be a stack of papers 310 miles high."
"And if the God of the universe created all that with his fingers, is that the kind of being you invite into your life to be no more than a low paid, personal assistant?"
He was trying to say, there's a lot to think about.