A Waste of Brainpower and Money

Americans spend more than $50 billion a year on space exploration. This includes not only money spent on rocket ships, space stations, and satellites, but also on scientists and researchers at universities and elsewhere.

But a funny thing is happening. The more money we spend, the more most of the scientists find out they are wrong. Here are a few examples from recent headlines:

Of course, it is okay to be wrong; the scientific method is based on making guesses about something then testing to see if you are right and wrong. The problem here is that most of these billions are being spent on proving ideas we already know are wrong.

All of the headlines and much of the research and exploration are related to our search for origins, of the universe, our planet, life, etc. No doubt there are things be discovered in this search. But we won’t find much that is meaningful and we will waste billions of dollars if the search begins with a lie, the denial of Genesis 1: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”

Denying this is a lie for all humans, just not Christians, as Romans 1:19–20 makes clear:

For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

In the Bible, we have eyewitness accounts of God creating all things (Christ and the Holy Spirit). Yet scientist continue the search for dark matter, which they have never found any proof for (see above), because it is needed to substantiate the increasingly falsified Big Bang thesis. Even many secular scientists have given up on the Big Bang and are looking elsewhere for answers.

Of course, they’ll keep coming up snake eyes until they look to God. No need looking for secret lives of universes, the multiverse, or galaxies swallowing galaxies to figure out where we came from.

One wonders what we might be able to learn about God and His creation if all that brainpower and money (not that the government ought to be funding it) were focused on research that begin with the premise, “God created the heavens and the earth.” If you’d like to get a taste of what could be accomplished with this, I recommend visiting the Biblical Science Institute founded by Dr. Jason Lisle, a Christian astrophysicist. Another good site is Creation Ministries International. And Answers in Genesis.