MOMENTUM

Today’s blog entry comes from Gary Hupfer, a friend of Creation Moments who happened to notice something unusual going on outside his house the night before last. We’ll let Gary tell it in his own words:

Just when you think you’ve seen and heard it all, a program like Creation Moments opens your eyes and shows what you are missing. Where we live, there are small frogs, about the size of the tip of one’s thumb, called spring peepers. They have special feet that enable them to climb walls and even glass windows. We observed one last night that climbed the side of our house, up to the motion-sensor floodlights, then moved across the sensor which turned on the lights. It then sat on top of the sensor, happily eating insects that were attracted to the light. When the lights “timed out” and turned off, the little frog moved across the sensor and turned them back on again. This went on for over an hour, until the bloated frog climbed down the house and went back to the pond!

To those of us who believe in biblical creation, a story like this just underscores the fact that even a frog the size of a thumbnail can bring glory to the awesome God who created it!

Here at Creation Moments, whenever we view breathtaking photos from the Hubble Space Telescope, we are filled with awe and praise for the God who created the universe. Atheists, however, can look at the very same photos and sing praises, not to the Creator but to the things He created. Here’s just one example of what we’re talking about:

“How can someone inspect the grandeur of the universe, the complexity that arises explosively out of simplicity and STILL believe in a divine creator? We live in an age where we have access to these beautiful images; we should be proud to shrug off our past superstitions and embrace the beauty of science and atheism. Atheism isn’t a dirty word, it’s a promotion of our species out of the dark, ghost-haunted world. We know now, for the first time in our existence, that there’s no need for the God hypothesis!” [posted June 9 at the Hubble Space Telescope iGoogle site]

While we are saddened to read things like this, we are not surprised. After all, Paul wrote about this worldview two thousand years ago: “For they exchanged the truth of God for a  lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.” (Romans 1:25)

So even when an atheist posts a message like this on the Internet, all he’s doing is inadvertently underscoring the truths found in the pages of Scripture.