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Most of us are familiar with the fact that our Earth is being observed by dozens of satellites that keep track of weather systems, natural resources, ocean currents, sunlight, climate, and animal migrations which makes every crop grown anywhere on Earth able to be identified.

In 1995, a series of data-collecting satellites called EOS, for Earth Observing System, were put into operation and are able to monitor just about any weather, climate, or atmospheric activity taking place on Earth. These satellites collect about one trillion bits of information per day. In less than its first week of operation, the amount of data gathered was greater than all the geoscience information recorded in human history! Scientists are beginning to wonder how they are going to organize all that information in a usable way.

Yet even though the sheer quantity of data collected is greater than our ability to organize it, we might be reminded that this is but a tiny fraction of all the information that God created for the Earth system. More than ever, the EOS project brings us face to face with a Creator Who put that information into the Earth's weather and geological systems in the first place. But more than that, He is able to handle all that information on a daily basis and maintain the most complex and delicately balanced system we call Earth.