The Arrogance of Man 

   The media is flooded with incredible images from the new James Webb telescope.  We see hundreds of galaxies that were unknown before, billions and billions of light-years away.  To put this in perspective, one light-year is equal to about six trillion miles.  It’s amazing what man has learned and continues to learn.

   Not so long ago man believed that Earth was the center of the universe; that all revolved around this tiny little planet in the immensity of universe.  They were obviously quite wrong.

   As recently as the 1970’s we were warned that a new ice-age was inevitable.  We were warned that a passing comet would cause devastation to the world.  We were told that all computers would cease computing when we passed from 1999 to 2000 (remember Y2K).  None of these catastrophes occurred.

   Today we are told that mankind is the cause of climate change that will destroy the world.  We certainly have a responsibility to care for God’s creation and use it wisely, to do otherwise is foolish.  But only God created it and only God will destroy it.  I can’t help wondering what great destroyer of the world science will propose next. 

   There are theories of how the universe began and some, in their arrogance, claim they know how it happened, but the theories are just that, theories.  Some claim religion is anti-science, but the Big-bang theory was first proposed by a Catholic priest, Georges Lemaitre.  The question isn’t so much how it began as who set it in motion.  If there was a “big-bang” who lit the fuse?

   Our knowledge of science has and will continue to be proven incomplete and even wrong as more and more discoveries are made.  I have no doubt that we will continue to be an arrogant bunch, thinking we know best, even better than God.  But somehow, I think God smiles knowingly at such nonsense, and then allows mankind to discover again how wrong their earlier scientific “facts” were.