Wednesday, 8/16/17
In the First Reading Moses
was treated to a view of the Promised Land, stretching from Lebanon to Egypt.
So, forgive me if I speak of the much bigger world that we knw.
People in the time of Moses
felt that their world was four thousand years old, while science today tells us
that our universe has been here since a big bang thirteen billion years ago.
Moses had not known of the
vast Atlantic Ocean lying beyond the Mediterranean, but our Voyager 2 Spacecraft
launched in 1977, has been directed to each of our orbiting planets, last of
all beaming back detailed information about the atmosphere of the planet
Neptune.
The most meaningful information
gleaned from our space probes is that the whole of the universe follows the
same predicable order.
I am overly fond of quoting a
line from Dante's 1300 "Divine Comedy," "All things among themselves possess an
order, and this order is the form that makes the universe like God."
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