After 10 years of chasing through lonely emptiness, the ESA craft "Rosetta" dropped a lander onto the core of a comet. Amazing! The earth launch site was moving one direction, the comet fell along another track in its battle with the sun's gravity. Various other members of the solar system family provided steering and acceleration. All these forces and more were accounted for by men and women originally created in the image of God.
Rosetta was named for a stone found in 1799 that held a known language, Greek, and two unknown writings in hieroglyphics. This find accelerated the understanding of ancient Egypt and the ancient near east. In fact, the Rosetta Stone advanced Biblical archeology and cultural understanding as much as any other discovery. The history of the Old Testament was proven solid with the help of the Stone.
Now our new Rosetta is probing a comet to find out about the creation of our solar system and perhaps the universe itself. What if this Rosseta does for the Genesis creation account, what the first did for the Old Testament? Could God have left His Truth etched on the face of a comet for us to find? Sounds like just the sort of discovery the God who was born in Bethlehem under a special star might put together.
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