Beyond Comprehension
AS MAN LIFTS
his consciousness toward the universe in the conquest of it, he seems ready to
tackle and challenge this last frontier with its vast and awesome
dimensions‑dimensions and distances so incredible they boggle the human
mind. No discovery in our time has been so hold and breathtaking as the
exploration of outer space. It has already affected politics and economics; it
has completely changed the attitude of m6dern man, his environment, and
especially his concept of God. The history of man's concept in regard to the
universe has been one of increasing awareness.
Man has come a long way since the Polish astronomer Copernicus suggested
that the sun, rather than the earth, was the center of our solar system. With
the harnessing of nuclear and thermonuclear energy, man tapped some of the
secrets of nature and propelled himself into the universe. It is a realm man has
never traveled before; it is a realm where the creative forces of God expand and
continuously create matter. With the push into the universe, man's awareness of
God will quicken rather than diminish. He will come to understand that God is
immaterial rather than material.
Our astronauts became impressed with this fact, on the surface of the
moon, and were so inspired and awed that later in outer space the Story of
Creation was read from the Scriptures. The great scientist Wernher von Braun was
asked some time ago about the existence of God; he replied, "You may call
this intelligence by whatever name you like, out there in the universe is a
force or power that is beyond my comprehension."
