David's Daily Diversions

All of Creation

The first pictures of the surface of Titan are in.

As regular readers will know, I have been an enthusiast about space exploration and travel since the days of the Apollo program. By my calculation, this is only the third heavenly body to have been viewed from the surface.

Space exploration is encouraged by the Psalmist, who said,

When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?

For the Christian, Huygens presents new opportunities to glorify the Creator of all of the universe. In Titan, He created a world that wouldn't even be discovered by humans until 1655 or explored until 2004. And yet He crafted it as carefully as His terrestrial work. It may not contain the variety of Earth and probably contains no life, but it was spun into space by His hand for His glory.

On a sad note, many scientist with their non-theistic presuppositions will use Titan to try to bolster their cosmology, and once again they will heap upon themselve their own condemnation. Though he will not have been aware of Titan, St Paul tells us:

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, because, although they knew God, they did not glorify His as God, nor were they thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

I am thankful for all the photographs, even if I can see what they cannot. If they had the eyes to look closely at every rock on the surface of Titan, they would see the fingerprint of God.